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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerized%20Coloring%20Books | Computerized Coloring Books is a collection of three games developed by Capstone Software and published by its parent company IntraCorp for MS-DOS and Amiga. A port for Windows 3.1 was planned but never released. The games are based on Bill Kroyer's film FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Don Bluth's film Rock-a-Doodle, and John Hughes's film Home Alone. The Rock-a-Doodle game was as released with Trolls and An American Tail: The Computer Adventures of Fievel and His Friends on the Capstone CD Game Kids Collection.
Gameplay
The games work as basic computerized coloring books, which require the player to fill in a line art picture. There are 16 colors available, which can be mixed for up to 256 colors. The player can choose from a selection of backgrounds and add any characters to the picture, both of which are based on scenes and characters of the respective films. The products support a wide range of printers, including dot matrix, color and laser printers.
Promotion
The FernGully product was designed to follow an environmentally friendly policy, by optionally using a computer instead of consumable paper, and using recycled paper. A coloring contest accompanied the product launch, including entry forms, for a $100 prize.
References
1992 video games
Amiga games
Cancelled Windows games
Capstone Software games
DOS games
Drawing video games
Video games based on films
Video games developed in the United States
Children's educational video games
IntraCorp games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-centric%20networking%20caching%20policies | In computing, cache algorithms (also frequently called cache replacement algorithms or cache replacement policies) are optimizing instructionsor algorithmsthat a computer program or a hardware-maintained structure can follow in order to manage a cache of information stored on the computer. When the cache is full, the algorithm must choose which items to discard to make room for the new ones. Due to the inherent caching capability of nodes in Information-centric networking ICN, the ICN can be viewed as a loosely connect network of caches, which has unique requirements of Caching policies. Unlike proxy servers, in Information-centric networking the cache is a network level solution. Therefore, it has rapidly changing cache states and higher request arrival rates; moreover, smaller cache sizes further impose different kind of requirements on the content eviction policies. In particular, eviction policies for Information-centric networking should be fast and lightweight. Various cache replication and eviction schemes for different Information-centric networking architectures and applications are proposed.
Policies
Time aware least recently used (TLRU)
The Time aware Least Recently Used (TLRU) is a variant of LRU designed for the situation where the stored contents in cache have a valid life time. The algorithm is suitable in network cache applications, such as information-centric networking (ICN), content delivery networks (CDNs) and distributed networks in general. TLRU introduces a new term: TTU (Time to Use). TTU is a time stamp of a content/page which stipulates the usability time for the content based on the locality of the content and the content publisher announcement. Owing to this locality based time stamp, TTU provides more control to the local administrator to regulate in network storage.
In the TLRU algorithm, when a piece of content arrives, a cache node calculates the local TTU value based on the TTU value assigned by the content publisher. The local TTU value is calculated by using a locally defined function. Once the local TTU value is calculated the replacement of content is performed on a subset of the total content stored in cache node. The TLRU ensures that less popular and small life content should be replaced with the incoming content.
Least frequent recently used (LFRU)
The Least Frequent Recently Used (LFRU) cache replacement scheme combines the benefits of LFU and LRU schemes. LFRU is suitable for 'in network' cache applications, such as ICN, CDNs and distributed networks in general. In LFRU, the cache is divided into two partitions called privileged and unprivileged partitions. The privileged partition can be defined as a protected partition. If content is highly popular, it is pushed into the privileged partition. Replacement of the privileged partition is done as follows: LFRU evicts content from the unprivileged partition, pushes content from privileged partition to unprivileged partition, and finally inserts new cont |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruslan%20Mitkov | Ruslan Mitkov is a professor at Lancaster University, and a researcher in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics. He completed his PhD at Technical University of Dresden under the supervision of Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann. He has published more than 240 refereed papers and is best known for his contributions to Anaphora Resolution, and his seminal work in computer-aided generation of multiple-choice tests among others.
Mitkov is the sole editor of the Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics (Oxford University Press) and the author of the book Anaphora Resolution (published by Longman), which have become standard textbooks in their fields. He is also the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Cambridge journal Natural Language Engineering and the editor-in-chief of John Benjamins’ book series in Natural Language Processing.
Selected works
1998. Robust pronoun resolution with limited knowledge, Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics-Volume 2
2001. Introduction to the special issue on computational anaphora resolution. Mitkov, Ruslan, Branimir Boguraev, and Shalom Lappin. Computational Linguistics 27.4 (2001): 473-477.
2003 Computer-aided generation of multiple-choice tests, Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 03 workshop on Building educational applications using natural language processing-Volume 2
Honors and awards
1993, 1994. Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2002. Keynote speaker at CICLing conference
2011. Doctor Honoris Causa from Plovdiv University
2012. Keynote speaker at TSD conference
2014. Professor Honoris Causa from Veliko Tarnovo University
References
External links
Ruslan Mitkov's Home Page
Google Scholar page
Bio at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences website
German computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Natural language processing researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Music%20%28UNESCO%29 | UNESCO's City of Music programme is part of the wider Creative Cities Network.
The Network launched in 2004, and has member cities in seven creative fields. The other fields are: Crafts and Folk Art, Design, Film, Gastronomy, Literature, and Media Arts.
Criteria for Cities of Music
To be approved as a City of Music, cities need to meet a number of criteria set by UNESCO.
Designated UNESCO Cities of Music share similar characteristics:
recognised centres of musical creation and activity
experience in hosting music festivals and events at a national or international level
promotion of the music industry in all its forms
music schools, conservatories, academies, and higher education institutions specialised in music
informal structures for music education, including amateur choirs and orchestras
domestic or international platforms dedicated to particular genres of music and/or music from other countries
cultural spaces suited for practicing and listening to music, e.g. open-air auditoriums.
About the cities
In March 2006, Seville was designated as the first City of Music. Bologna was named approximately two months later.
Seville has a "legendary Flamenco scene," and UNESCO lists Flamenco as an "intangible cultural heritage."
Hamamatsu is the founding city of musical instrument companies Yamaha, Kawai, and Roland. It has also an Museum of Musical Instruments.
Liverpool—"the city that spawned The Beatles"—earned its designation due to music's "place in the heart of the city's life." UNESCO also noted a "clearly defined" music, education, and skills strategy for young people.
Idanha-a-Nova "lives by the rhythm of music," Ghent is a "city full of culture," and Auckland is the "beating heart of New Zealand's music industry."
Adelaide is "sophisticated, cultured, and neat-casual," Daegu is a "pleasant and progressive place," and Leiria is an "agreeable mixture of medieval and modern."
Cities of Music
As of 2021, fifty Cities of Music have been designated by UNESCO.
Nineteen of the participating cities are European, ten are Asian and Middle Eastern. South America and North America each have six, Africa has four, and two have been designated in Oceania.
Seven countries have two member cities. Colombia, Portugal, and the United Kingdom are the only countries to have three designated cities.
The Cities of Music are:
See also
City of Gastronomy
City of Literature
City of Film
Design Cities (UNESCO)
City of Crafts and Folk Arts
City of Media Arts
Music of Adelaide
References
Musical culture
UNESCO
Lists of cities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie%20desJardins | Marie desJardins is an American computer scientist, known for her research on artificial intelligence and computer science education. She is also active in broadening participation in computing.
Biography
DesJardins grew up in Columbia, Maryland. She received an A. B. in Engineering and Computer Science from Harvard University in 1985.
She received a Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Berkeley in 1992.
In 1991 she joined SRI International, working in the Artificial
Intelligence Center. In 2001 she joined the Department of Computer Science
and Electrical Engineering
at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as an Assistant Professor. While there she was
promoted to Associate Professor in 2007 and to Professor in 2011.
In 2015, she was appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in UMBC
College of Engineering and Information Technology. She left UMBC in 2018 to become the Founding Dean of the College of
Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences at
Simmons University in Boston.
Career
DesJardins has explored the effect of the network topology on the efficiency of
team formation in multi-agent systems, showing that scale-free networks are
often the most effective topologies for facilitating team formation and
leading to the development of learning methods for agents to adapt their
behavioral strategies.
She has shown the first approach to trust modeling that explicitly
separates the effect of competence (that is, the degree to which an agent is
able to carry out its commitments) and integrity (that is, the degree to which
an agent is actually committed to complete its part of a joint action) on
decision making. This framework was later extended to incorporate reputation
(indirect observations provided by third-party agents, with applications to
online rating systems and supply chain formation.
In many domains, when a set of items is presented as a collection, interactions between the items may increase (due to complementarity) or decrease (due to redundancy or incompatibility) the quality of the set as a whole. Although this “portfolio effect” had occasionally been mentioned in the literature, this work was the first to address this problem a general way, by modeling the tradeoff between the “depth” of the set (i.e., which characteristics of the individual items are seen as more or less desirable) and its “diversity” (i.e., how broadly or narrowly distributed the objects in the set are over their possible range).
This work presented a heuristic method for taking advantage of taxonomies, or
hierarchies of values, in Bayesian network learning by searching for the most
effective level of abstraction within the taxonomy, discovering which
distinctions are relevant for the input data, and ignoring the others.
This process reduces the number of parameters that must be estimated, and
simplifies the representation, while preserving the meaningful distinctions in
the domain.
This paper, presenting comprehensive ad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WatchGuard | WatchGuard, formally known as WatchGuard Technologies, Inc, is an American technology company based in Seattle, Washington. It specializes in network security solutions aimed at safeguarding computer networks from external threats such as malware and ransomware.
The company was founded in 1996.
History
WatchGuard was initially established in 1996 under the name Seattle Software Labs, Inc. Its inaugural product was a network firewall known as the WatchGuard Security Management System, which included the WatchGuard Firebox, a "firewall in a box" security appliance, along with configuration and administration software.
In 1997, the company rebranded itself as WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
Come July 1999, WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. went public, trading on Nasdaq.
In October 2006, the company was acquired for $151 million by private equity firms Francisco Partners and Vector Capital. Bruce Coleman assumed the role of interim CEO.
In August 2007, Joe Wang took over as the company's permanent CEO, succeeding Coleman.
In May 2014, CEO Wang stepped down, and interim CEO Michael Kohlsdorf, an operating partner with Francisco Partners, assumed leadership.
In April 2015, Kohlsdorf passed the CEO mantle to Prakash Panjwani. It was announced that both Panjwani and Kohlsdorf were joining WatchGuard's board.
In June 2016, the company acquired HawkEye G, a threat-detection and response technology from Hexis Cyber Solutions, now part of KEYW Holding Corp. In October, the company launched the WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud to expand its network security coverage to Wi-Fi networks.
In August 2017, WatchGuard acquired Datablink, a provider of multi-factor authentication software used to secure laptops, servers, and other devices.
In January 2018, the company acquired Percipient Networks, a domain name system service provider.
In July 2018, the company unveiled AuthPoint, an application designed to offer multi-factor authentication security for businesses.
In March 2020, WatchGuard announced an agreement to acquire Madrid-based Panda Security, a provider of network endpoint security. The deal was finalized in June.
Products
The company develops security products and services for businesses. There are four product groups: Network Security, Endpoint Security, Secure Wi-Fi, and Multi-Factor Authentication.
The Network Security devices are categorized as Unified Threat Management (UTM), where a single device provides multiple security features. The devices include WatchGuard Dimension, a network discovery tool that allows administrators to identify devices on the network, including mobile devices; and WatchGuard Cloud, giving the devices access to online threat intelligence.
The Endpoint Security offering includes products and services that provide advanced endpoint security, endpoint antivirus, security operations, and DNS-level protection and content filtering.
The Secure Wi-Fi product line consists of secure indoor and outdoor Wave 1 and Wave 2 802.11ac W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla%3A%20The%20Planet%20Eater | is a 2018 Japanese computer-animated kaiju film directed by Kōbun Shizuno and Hiroyuki Seshita. Produced and animated by Toho Animation and Polygon Pictures, in association with Netflix, it is the 34th film in the Godzilla franchise, the 32nd Godzilla film produced by Toho, the final film in the franchise's anime trilogy, and the fourth film in the franchise's Reiwa era.
Godzilla: The Planet Eater concludes the narrative of the anime trilogy, taking place after the events of Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters and Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle. The film follows the struggles of humanity, their extraterrestrial allies, and Godzilla as they battle to survive against King Ghidorah. Godzilla: The Planet Eater was released theatrically in Japan on November 9, 2018, and was released worldwide on Netflix on January 9, 2019.
Plot
Following the destruction of Mechagodzilla City, the remaining Bilusaludo on the Aratrum demand justice for Haruo destroying what they saw as necessary to defeat Godzilla. The humans disagree, believing Haruo exposed the Bilusaludo's true intentions of assimilating Earth. The Bilusaludo revolt and shut down the ship's engine room, forcing the ship to run on secondary batteries for the next two days. On Earth, Haruo learns from Dr. Martin that Yuko is rendered brain-dead with the nanometal in her body keeping her alive. He also learns that those treated by the Houtua survived the nanometal's attempt to absorb them, with Methphies deceiving the survivors into believing their survival was divine intervention. When confronted by Haruo about converting the remaining humans, Methphies reveals his plan to bring the Exifs' god to Earth and needs Haruo's help to make it possible. Dr. Martin advises Haruo to hide until tensions ease.
Haruo is escorted to a remote camp by the Houtua twins, Maina and Miana. Miana explains privately to Haruo that her people have no concept of hatred and that their concept of life revolves around "winning" (surviving and making life) or "losing" (dying and disappearing). She tells Haruo that he is "losing" and offers to "connect life" with him, but he turns her down. When Maina later extends the same offer, he realizes it was she who had rescued him, not her sister Miana, and accepts. Miana discovers Metphies telepathically communicating with Endurph, the Exif reveals his plans before capturing her, as she telepathically contacts Haruo and Maina.
Metphies later conducts a ritual with his followers in conjunction with Endurph to summon their god, Ghidorah, to defeat Godzilla. Ghidorah manifests as a shadow on Earth and partially through singularities, devouring Metphies's followers and destroying the Aratrum. Ghidorah then proceeds to attack Godzilla, who is helpless against the intangible monster as its heads bite Godzilla and drain his energy. Dr. Martin concludes that Ghidorah's true form exists in another plane of existence and is being guided by someone in their universe, Haruo finding it to be Me |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOTO%20Database | DOTO Database (Documentation of the Oppressed) is an online portal with data on religious identity based hate-crime against minorities that has happened in India since 2014. The website was launched on 7 March 2018 at Constitution Club of India, New Delhi. The inauguration ceremony was attended by Ram Punyani, Teesta Setalvad, Zafar ul Islam Khan, John Dayal, Ravi Nair. Saba Naqvi and other social activists.
Documentation of the Oppressed is an independent, non-profit documentation center based in New Delhi. It is run by a network of civil society organizations, both at the national and at the grass-root level like Quill Foundation, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, CHRI, People's Union for Civil Liberties and others.
DOTO Database functions both as a tracker of violence, and a site for in-depth narratives. The database mixes a crowd-sourcing model with its own investigative and editorial teams.
Principles and objectives
Over the years, there has been a marked increase in the violence conducted against certain sections of society. This violence manifests itself in different forms; it can be through organized and institutional violence by the State or through the actions of allied groups in furtherance of their internalized biases.
The primary objective of the DOTO Database is to create a common documentation platform for the civil society to report hate crime incidents happening across India. This database documents all verifiable incidents of targeted violence against specific communities as reported in English and Urdu media as well as fact-finding and civil society reports. It also provides a platform for in-depth narratives. DOTO aims to increases media reportage through an amalgamation of a crowd-sourcing model along with its own investigative and editorial teams. It is an easy-to-use model and ultimately seeks to make essential information accessible to all. It addresses a number of issues such as the systemic violation of fundamental rights, the erosion of constitutional values and the deployment of hate towards religious minorities in India.
The team
The DOTO project has two independent teams dedicated to the task: The executive team and the editorial group.
The Executive Team is formed by a group of young lawyers, criminologists, and social workers dedicated to the task of documenting religious hate crime. the tasks of this team include establishing the on-ground networks, training community persons, conducting fact-finding exercises, verifying information, and undertaking selective advocacy.
The Editorial Team consists of a set of senior media persons and academics. The people in this team have the final say on the cases. The members of the editorial team receive verified input from the executive team and take a call on the journalistic quality of the cases.
References
External links
Databases in India
Hate crime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifford%20Marine%20Park | Gifford Marine Park is an Australian marine park located 700 km (435 mi) east of Brisbane, Queensland. Part of the Temperate East Marine Park Network, it protects 5,828 km2 (2,250 sq mi) around two flat-topped seamounts, located in the Lord Howe Seamount Chain.
One of the two seamounts, Gifford Guyot, gives its name to the park. The Gifford Marine Park protects the habitat for humpback and sperm whales who may visit the seamounts for feeding, resting and breeding and also for navigation.
The Gifford Marine Park has been designated a Habitat Protection Zone, IUCN Category IV.
See also
Australian marine parks
Gallery
Images taken from Nanson et al (2018).
References
IUCN Category IV
Australian marine parks
Marine protected areas of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arafura%20Marine%20Park |
The Arafura Marine Park, about north-east of Darwin, is Australia's most northern marine park, and is part of the North Network of Australian Marine Parks. The Aboriginal clans of Mandilarri-Ildugij, the Mangalara, the Murran, the Gadura-Minaga and the Ngaynjaharr whose sea country this is, share some of the responsibilities for the park.
The marine park covers , and has depths from to over .
The park is managed as an IUCN category VI park with three zones (see figure 1): a multiple use zone, a special purpose zone and a special purpose (trawl) zone. Important sections of the park (see figure 2) include the Money Shoal, which is an area of raised sea-bed, thought to have been produced by periods of coral reef growth during the Quaternary and differing sea levels.
Money Shoal
Money Shoal carries an abundant and varied assemblage of coral and organisms associated with coral reefs, an abundance of hard corals in the shallows, filter feeders on the shoal margins, while in the deeper areas of the sediment plains, there is little to no benthos.
Money shoal gallery
Fauna
Taken from Galaiduk, et al. (2021)
Chelonia mydas (Green turtle)
Lepidochelys olivacea (Olive Ridley Turtle)
Carcharhinus sorrah (spot-tail shark)
Lutjanus malabaricus, Lutjanus erythropterus (red snappers)
Lutjanus sebae (red emperor)
Pristipomoides multidens (goldband snapper)
See also
Australian marine parks
References
Australian marine parks
Marine protected areas of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Traveller%20Women%27s%20Forum | The National Traveller Women's Forum (NTWF) is an Irish network of traveller women and women's groups.
History
The NTWF was founded in 1988 in order to advance "Traveller women's rights [as] human rights, equality, cultural recognition, solidarity, liberation, collective action, anti-sexism, anti-racism [and] self-determination". The Forum developed out of the Dublin Travellers Education and Development Group (DTEDG), with the Group initially funding and supporting the Forum.
Core activities
The NTWF's vision is "Traveller Women have achieved full equality and their identity is celebrated." It has worked in the fields including unemployment, accommodation, and discrimination and plans to work on supporting traveller women in prison. They also have highlighted the issues Traveller women face regarding mental and physical health, in particular the discrepancy between the life expectancy of Traveller community in comparison to the settled community. It is a member of the National Women's Council of Ireland, a company limited by guarantee incorporated in 2002, and a registered charity, RCN 20045364.
Alongside other Traveller advocacy groups including Minceirs Whiden, Irish Traveller Movement, and Pavee Point, the Forum conducts periodic surveys of the Travelling community and perceptions of the settled community. In 2019, with Tallaght Traveller Community Development Project and Blanchardstown Traveller Development Group, the Forum called on the Irish government to pay members of the Travelling community reparations for the racism they have identified within the policies of the Irish State. The Forum also campaign on the accessibility of education to Traveller children, and the effects of government policy educational outcomes for these children in comparison to their settled peers.
With over 20 groups including Amnesty International Ireland, the Immigrant Council of Ireland, and the Irish Refugee Council, in January 2020 the Forum co-signed an open letter to the Irish government calling on politicians to not use "hate speech". In reaction to the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests, the Forum joined with other Travellers' groups to draw attention to the racism and prejudice experienced by their communities.
The NTWF's co-ordinator is Maria Joyce. One of the group's active members, Eileen Flynn, is planning on running for the Seanad, having received a nomination from the Labour Party. The Forum has called for the establishment of a permanent senator for Travellers in the Seanad.
After a case involving sexual abuse in a Traveller family over many years, the Forum and other Traveller women's advocacy groups highlighted the systemic failure of a number of state agencies that prolonged the abuse.
References
Irish Travellers
Charities based in the Republic of Ireland
Women's organisations based in Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nigerian%20films%20of%202002 | This is a list of Nigerian films released in 2002.
Films
See also
List of Nigerian films
References
External links
2003 films at the Internet Movie Database
2002
Lists of 2002 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day%3A%20America%20Invades | D-Day: America Invades is a 1995 computer wargame developed by Atomic Games and published by Avalon Hill for IBM PC compatibles. It is the third game in the World at War series, following Operation Crusader and World at War: Stalingrad.
Gameplay
Set in World War II, D-Day: America Invades is a computer wargame that simulates D-Day and the following fight for territorial advantages.
Development
As a consequence of Atomic Games' split with Avalon Hill in September 1995, D-Day: America Invades was the two companies' last game together. According to Alan Emrich of Computer Gaming World, Atomic's Keith Zabalaoui called this "purely a business decision" and clarified that there was no ill will between the companies.
Reception
D-Day: America Invades sold fewer than 50,000 units globally. This was part of a trend for Avalon Hill games during the period; Terry Coleman of Computer Gaming World wrote in late 1998 that "no AH game in the past five years" had reached the mark.
Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "Atomic Games manages to take much of the tedium out of this tile-based wargame, enabling you to concentrate on strategy as you try to duplicate history, or if you're playing as the Nazis, change it." William R. Trotter wrote for PC Gamer US, "Hats off, ladies and gents: a classic is born. Wargames just don’t get any better than this."
Reviews
Imperium Gier (Sep 01, 1999)
References
External links
D-Day: America Invades
1995 video games
Atomic Games games
Avalon Hill video games
Computer wargames
DOS games
DOS-only games
Operation Overlord video games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20access%20in%20New%20Zealand | Open access in New Zealand consists of policies and norms affecting making research outputs, data, and education materials openly available. This is influenced by tertiary education institutions as well as national government and changing international norms. The New Zealand Government has applied open access principles to its own work, adopting the New Zealand Government Open Access Licensing Framework (NZGOAL). It has not mandated that these apply to schools or the tertiary sector or to research funding agencies. Some tertiary education institutions have developed their own open access guidelines or policies but neither of the two major research funding agencies in New Zealand—the Marsden Fund and the Health Research Council—have done so, unlike Australia, Canada, Europe or the United States.
New Zealand Government and Open Access
In 2010 the New Zealand Government adopted NZGOAL or the New Zealand Government Open Access Licensing Framework to provide "...guidance for agencies to follow when releasing copyright works and non-copyright material for re-use by others." The stated purpose of the framework is to unlock for reuse the large amounts of material generated by government agencies, since it is "widely recognised, in New Zealand and abroad, that significant creative and economic potential may lie dormant in such material when locked up in agencies and not released on terms allowing re-use by others." Essentially NZGOAL required government agencies to adopt a Creative Commons licence to data or information released with a high potential for public reuse. Version 2 of NZGOAL was finalised in December 2014. The framework has also had a software extension released to "let kiwi techies use government software to help build other innovative software".
A corollary government instrument was the Declaration on Open and Transparent Government in 2011, which sought "to commit to releasing high value public data actively for re-use, in accordance with the Declaration and Principles, and in accordance with the NZGOAL Review and Release process."
Version 1 of NZGOAL applied to all State Sector agencies, including the Public Service and Crown Entities but this specifically excluded tertiary education institutions. For Version 2 of NZGOAL, this wording was altered, with Public Service departments being directed to use NZGOAL, while other State Services were strongly encouraged to adopt it; school boards of were to be "invited" to do so.
Formal Open Access Policies in the tertiary sector
In 2010 The Council of New Zealand University Librarians (CONZUL) -- a Committee of Universities New Zealand—released a Statement on Open Scholarship, updated in 2019.
In 2013 a group of researchers, lawyers, librarians, research infrastructure providers, technology consultants, and software developers met at an open research conference formulating the 'Tasman Declaration' on open research, with the vision that "society [should be] able to access and reuse the outputs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Brander | Kenneth Brander (; born April 18, 1962) is an American rabbi who is president and Rosh HaYeshiva of the Ohr Torah Stone network of institutions. He is a member of the Jewish Federations of North America’s Rabbinic Cabinet Round Table.
Biography
Brander is a 1984 alumnus of Yeshiva College and received his ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary where he was a student of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. He studied at Florida Atlantic University, obtaining a PhD in general philosophy and comparative literature. His dissertation was titled "The Temple in Jerusalem Idealized and the Historic-Synagogue-Institution: A Study in Synagogue Purposes in an American Context."
From 1990 to 1991, Brander was the acting rabbi of New York's Lincoln Square Synagogue, after serving for four years as its assistant rabbi. He served as the senior rabbi of the Boca Raton Synagogue for 14 years (1991–2005). From 2005 to 2018, he served as vice president of Yeshiva University. In 2018, he assumed the position of President and Rosh HaYeshiva of Ohr Torah Stone.
Works
“Kabbalat Shabbat: Why Is This Night Different from All Others?” in Mitokh Ha-Ohel, From Within the Tent: The Shabbat Prayers ed. Daniel Z. Feldman and Stuart W. Halpern (Maggid Books: Jerusalem, 2016), 37–44.
“Fashioning Our Spiritual Garb” in Mitokh Ha-Ohel, From Within the Tent: Essays on the weekly Haftarah Reading ed. Daniel Z. Feldman and Stuart W. Halpern (Maggid Books: Jerusalem, 2011), 451–456.
“We have Met the Enemy … and He Is Us” in Mitokh Ha-Ohel, From Within the Tent: The Weekly Parashah ed. Daniel Z. Feldman and Stuart W. Halpern (Maggid Books: Jerusalem, 2010), 101–107.
“Our Members, Our Communities: A ‘Sh’ma’ Roundtable,” Sh’ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility, October 2012, 9–13.
“In the Eye of the Storm: Shabbat Observance During a Hurricane or Severe WeatherEvent,” Journal of Halakha and Contemporary Society, LXIV (Fall 2012), 41–65.
“Ethics in Philanthropy: Should Synagogues and Mosdot Chinuch Accept Tainted Funds,” in Toward a Renewed Ethic of Jewish Philanthropy, The Orthodox Forum 19, Ed. Yossi Prager (Ktav: Jersey City, 2010), 291–306.
“Introduction,” Life Values and Intimacy Education: Health Education for the Jewish School, Grades 3 – 8, ed. Yocheved Debow and Anna Woloski-Wruble (Ktav: Jersey City, 2008).
“Foreword,” The West Side Institutional Synagogue Megilat Esther, ed. Shlomo Einhorn (I.S, Press: New York, 2008): 7–14.
“The Rov as a Personal Rebbe,” in Mentor of Generations: Reflections on Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, ed. Zev Eleff (Ktav: Newark, 2008), 324–328.
“Sex Selection and Halakhic Ethics: A Contemporary Discussion,” Tradition 40:1 (Spring 2007), 45–78.
“Memories of a Giant,” in Memories of a Giant: Eulogies in Memory of Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik zt"l, ed. M. A. Bierman (Urim: Jerusalem and New York, 2003).
“Gynecological Procedures and Their Interface with Halakha,” Journal of Halakha and Contemporary Society, XLII (Fall 2001), 30–44 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele%20Weaver | Michele Weaver is an American actress, known for playing the leading role in the Oprah Winfrey Network romantic drama series, Love Is.
Life and career
Weaver was born and raised in Littleton, Colorado. She is the daughter of a Haitian mother and her father from Colorado. Weaver attended Pepperdine University and later began performing in theatre. On screen, she began appearing in small films, and played secondary roles on television shows include Switched at Birth and Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life. She played bigger roles in the Syfy television film 2 Lava 2 Lantula (2016), and was co-lead in the thriller Illicit (2017) opposite David Ramsey and Vivica A. Fox.
In 2018, Weaver was cast in a leading role on the Oprah Winfrey Network romantic drama series, Love Is created by Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil. The series is based on the Akils’ relationship, the series told the story of a power couple navigating the landscape of Black Hollywood. On July 31, 2018, it was originally renewed for a second season, but on December 19, 2018, OWN reversed the decision and canceled the series after Salim Akil was accused of domestic violence and copyright infringement.
In 2019, Weaver appeared opposite Delta Burke, Tim Reid, Brooke Elliott in an episode of Netflix anthology series Dolly Parton's Heartstrings. In 2020, she starred in the short-lived NBC drama series, Council of Dads.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
American television actresses
Living people
People from Littleton, Colorado
21st-century American actresses
Pepperdine University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Actresses from Colorado
American film actresses
African-American actresses
American people of Haitian descent
21st-century African-American women
21st-century African-American people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20stylometry | Code stylometry (also known as program authorship attribution or source code authorship analysis) is the application of stylometry to computer code to attribute authorship to anonymous binary or source code. It often involves breaking down and examining the distinctive patterns and characteristics of the programming code and then comparing them to computer code whose authorship is known. Unlike software forensics, code stylometry attributes authorship for purposes other than intellectual property infringement, including plagiarism detection, copyright investigation, and authorship verification.
History
In 1989, researchers Paul Oman and Curtis Cook identified the authorship of 18 different Pascal programs written by six authors by using “markers” based on typographic characteristics.
In 1998, researchers Stephen MacDonell, Andrew Gray, and Philip Sallis developed a dictionary-based author attribution system called IDENTIFIED (Integrated Dictionary-based Extraction of Non-language-dependent Token Information for Forensic Identification, Examination, and Discrimination) that determined the authorship of source code in computer programs written in C++. The researchers noted that authorship can be identified using degrees if flexibility in the writing style of the source code, such as:
The way the algorithm in the source code solves the given problem
The way the source code is laid out (spacing, indentation, bordering characteristics, standard headings, etc.)
The way the algorithm is implemented in the source code
The IDENTIFIED system attributed authorship by first merging all the relevant files to produce a single source code file and then subjecting it to a metrics analysis by counting the number of occurrences for each metric. In addition, the system was language-independent due to its ability to create new dictionary files and meta-dictionaries.
In 1999, a team of researchers led by Stephen MacDonell tested the performance of three different program authorship discrimination techniques on 351 programs written in C++ by 7 different authors. The researchers compared the effectiveness of using a feed-forward neural network (FFNN) that was trained on a back-propagation algorithm, multiple discriminant analysis (MDA), and case-based reasoning (CBR). At the end of the experiment, both the neural network and the MDA had an accuracy rate of 81.1%, while the CBR reached an accuracy performance of 88.0%.
In 2005, researchers from the Laboratory of Information and Communication Systems Security at Aegean University introduced a language-independent method of program authorship attribution where they used byte-level n-grams to classify a program to an author. This technique scanned the files and then created a table of different n-grams found in the source code and the number of times they appear. In addition, the system could operate with limited numbers of training examples from each author. However, the more source code programs that were prese |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMA%20%28VPN%29 | HMA (formerly HideMyAss!) is a VPN service founded in 2005 in the United Kingdom. It has been a subsidiary of the Czech cybersecurity company Avast since 2016.
History
HMA was created in 2005 in Norfolk, England by Jack Cator. At the time, Cator was sixteen years-old. He created HMA in order to circumvent restrictions his school had on accessing games or music from their network. According to Cator, the first HMA service was created in just a few hours using open-source code. The first product was a free proxy website where users typed in a URL and it delivered the website in the user's web browser.
Cator promoted the tool in online forums and it was featured on the front page of digg. After attracting more than one thousand users, Cator incorporated ads. HMA did not take any venture capital funding. It generated about $1,000 - $2,000 per month while the founder went to college to pursue a degree in computer science. In 2009, Cator dropped out of college to focus on HMA and added a paid VPN service. Most early HMA employees were freelancers found on oDesk. In 2012, one of the freelancers set up a competing business. HMA responded by hiring its contractors as full-time employees and establishing physical offices in London.
In 2012, the United Kingdom's government sent HMA a court order demanding it provide information about Cody Andrew Kretsinger's use of HMA's service to hack Sony as a member of the LulzSec hacking group. HMA provided the information to authorities. HMA said it was a violation of the company's terms of use to use its software for illegal activities.
In 2013, HMA added software to anonymize internet traffic from mobile devices was first added in 2013. In 2014, the company introduced HideMyPhone! service, which allowed mobile phone users to make their calls appear to come from a different location.
By 2014, the service had 10 million users and 215,000 paying subscribers of its VPN service. It made £11 million in revenue that year. HMA had 100 staff and established international offices in Belgrade and Kyiv.
By 2015, HMA became one of the largest VPN providers. In May 2015, it was acquired by AVG Technologies for $40 million with a $20 million earn-out upon achievement of milestones, and became part of Avast after its 2016 acquisition of AVG Technologies.
In 2017, a security vulnerability was discovered that allowed hackers with access to a user's laptop to obtain elevated privileges on the device. HMA corrected the vulnerability days later.
In 2019, it was reported that HMA received a directive from Russian authorities to join a state sponsored registry of banned websites, which would prevent Russian HMA users from circumventing Russian state censorship. HMA was reportedly given one month to comply, or face blocking by Russian authorities.
In 2020, HMA introduced a no-log policy for their VPN service. Under the policy HMA will not log a user’s original IP address, DNS queries, online activity, amount of data transferred or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Tab%20S4 | The Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 is a tablet computer developed and produced by Samsung Electronics. It is the successor of the previous Galaxy Tab S3, and was announced alongside the cheaper Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.5.
History
The Tab S4 was revealed online on August 1, 2018, with preorders for Wi-Fi and cellular models beginning on the same day. In the United States at launch, LTE models are available for purchase via Verizon, with support from other carriers arriving in Q3 2018.
Specifications
Hardware
The Tab S4 features an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 with 4 GB of LPDDR4X memory. It is available in 64 or 256 GB storage variants, with expandable microSD card support for up to 400 GB (as of Oct 2022 1TB mSD cards do work). The Tab S4 has Bluetooth 5.0 support and a larger 7,300 mAh battery with adaptive fast charging, and a claimed video playback time of up to 16 hours. The device has integrated far-field microphones that allow Google Assistant to be controlled from far distances.
Compared to the Galaxy Tab S3, the Tab S4 has a larger 10.5-inch 2560x1600 display with a 16:10 aspect ratio and slimmer bezels, allowing its footprint to be similar to its predecessor. As a result, the Tab S4 no longer features a fingerprint sensor or navigation and home buttons, and uses a facial and iris scanner instead. The front-facing selfie-camera has been upgraded to 8 megapixels and can record in 1080p resolution. The four stereo speakers have also been tuned by AKG and support Dolby Atmos surround sound.
The front and back glass uses Gorilla Glass 3 and the front doesn't have the Samsung logo.
Software
The Tab S4 comes with Samsung Experience 9.5, which is based on Android 8.1.0 Oreo. The device's firmware was made upgradable to One UI, which is based on Android 9, on a firmware upgrade rollout starting in April 2019.
New features include Samsung Knox protection and a Daily Board mode, that allows for the display of photos, and weather and calendar information. Bixby 2.0 will be added in a future software update in 2019.
Samsung DeX is also natively supported and is launched on the device when a keyboard cover is connected. The Tab S4 can run up to 20 multiple application windows simultaneously, and supports split screen, drag and drop, and right click functionality. When connected to an external monitor, the screen can be used as a touchpad.
Accessories
The Tab S4 is included with an improved S Pen stylus with a 0.7 mm tip and 4,096 pressure sensitivity levels, similar to the S Pen on the Galaxy Note 8. It weighs and supports features such as air commands, translation of on-screen text, screen-off memos, and live messages.
A detachable keyboard accessory is also offered separately and magnetically latches onto the Tab S4. It has a holster for the S Pen but does not include a touchpad, requiring users to rely on the touchscreen, S Pen or a bluetooth mouse for input.
References
External links
Samsung Galaxy Tab series
Samsung Galaxy
Tablet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Special%20Tatay | My Special Tatay (International title: The Heart Knows / ) is a Philippine television drama family series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by L.A. Madridejos, it stars Ken Chan in the title role. It premiered on September 3, 2018 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Hindi Ko Kayang Iwan Ka. The series concluded on March 29, 2019 with a total of 150 episodes. It was replaced by Inagaw na Bituin in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Boyet, a young man with mild intellectual disability who has a quiet and simple life with his mother, will be changed when they find out that he has a child. Despite their state in life and Boyet's condition, they will take care of the child along with the help of aunt Chona and Boyet's childhood friend, Carol.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Ken Chan as Roberto "Boyet" Mariano Villaroman
Supporting cast
Jestoni Alarcon as Edgar Villaroman
Teresa Loyzaga as Olivia "Via" Salcedo-Villaroman
Lilet as Isay Mariano
Carmen Soriano as Soledad Villaroman
Jillian Ward as Odette S. Villaroman
Candy Pangilinan as Chona Mariano
Arra San Agustin as Carol Flores
Bruno Gabriel as Orville S. Villaroman
Guest cast
John Kenneth Giducos as Deckdeck
Phytos Ramirez as Jeff
Cheska Diaz as Sheila Flores
Barbara Miguel as Cindy Flores
Rubi Rubi as Divine
Matt Evans as young Edgar
Valeen Montenegro as young Via
Empress Schuck as young Isay
Ashley Rivera as young Chona
Dominic Roco as Peter Flores
Elle Ramirez as young Sheila
Soliman Cruz as Bernardo "Obet" Mariano
Kyle Ocampo as Eunice
Johnny Revilla as Faustino Salcedo
Lito Legaspi as Simon Villaroman
Bryce Eusebio as teen Boyet
Euwenn Aleta as young Boyet / Angelo L. Mariano
Dayara Shane as teen Carol
Rita Daniela as Susan "Aubrey" P. Labrador-Mariano
Mikoy Morales as Joselito "Ote" Mendiola
Jhoana Marie Tan as Britney
Jazz Ocampo as Erika Roque
Kristine Abbey as Annie
Joemarie Nielsen as Bert
Cyruzz King as Paeng
Angeli Bayani as Myrna Palomares Labrador
ER Villa as baby Angelo L. Mariano
Arny Ross as Monique Roque
Agimat Maguigad, Cajo Tan, Clint Limbas, JR Palero and Rommel Calupitan as the Katambays
Alchris Galura as Joel Dimaano
Jon Romano as Rudy Flores
Kiel Rodriguez as Dan
Bernard Vios as Xander
Frances Makil-Ignacio as Mamita
Ayra Mariano as Anna
Tonio Quiazon as Antonio Aguilar
Lou Veloso as Miong
Martin del Rosario as Gardo Guzman
Jervi Cajarop as Bogart
Production
Principal photography concluded in March 2019.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement People in television homes, the pilot episode of My Special Tatay earned a 6.6% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2018 Philippine television series debuts
2019 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win%20Radio | Win Radio is a network of radio stations of ZimZam Management, Inc., led by radio veteran and executive Manuelito "Manny" Luzon. Compared to major rivals (My Only Radio, Love Radio, Barangay FM, Star FM, Energy FM, etc.) which are run by their associated parent company, ZimZam buys Win Radio's airtime from third-party networks, as they do not have a legal franchise to directly operate stations.
Win Radio currently operates five radio stations owned by Mabuhay Broadcasting System and another one owned by Sarraga Integrated and Management Corporation.
History
Win Radio was born after PBC's NU 107, a popular radio station that plays mainly rock music and Original Pilipino Music since 1987, suffered from financial difficulties and poor ratings in its latter years. Eventually, the PBC decided to reformat the station and inject new capital. On October 10, 2010, radio veteran Manuelito "Manny" Luzon was appointed EVP and COO of PBC and subsequently shutdown NU 107 on November 8, 2010. The following day, November 9, DWNU is rebranded as 107.5 Win Radio. PBC's provincial radio counterparts followed suit between January and March 2011.
Luzon originally coined the name "Love Radio" for DZMB in the 80s. From 2002 to 2017, it retained its #1 spot among Metro Manila stations. He also formed radio network Ultrasonic Broadcasting System in 1991, and created and popularized Energy FM in key provinces beginning in 1996. In 2003, Energy took over DWKY in Manila, immediately becoming a household sensation and in 2008 reaching as far as #2 among Metro Manila stations.
Reformatted as a "more decent mainstream frequency", it distinguishes itself from its competitors through "responsible programming" without playing songs "with double meaning" as is the structure for the masa market. Just four months after its debut, Win Radio Manila landed at #7 according to the March 2011 KBP Radio Research Council survey.
To expand its coverage, DWKY reformatted as 91.5 Big Radio on June 1, 2011, serving as affiliate of Win Radio after the Henares family, acquired a 25% minority share of its owner Mabuhay Broadcasting System. Win Radio and Big Radio occupied the former NU 107 facilities at the AIC Gold Tower in Ortigas Center, Pasig; and ties together in promotion, including singing competition "The Win-Big Singing Talent Search". The said development made Luzon's brands a de facto duopoly to rivals in the Metro Manila market. At its peak, Big Radio ranked #3 in the FM radio ratings according to the March 2012 KBP Radio Research Council survey. ZimZam Management, which owns both brands, began modernization of facilities through the leasing of broadcast space at the Summit One Tower in Mandaluyong, which will about to house studios of both Win Radio and Big Radio.
However, plans fell through on June 28, 2014, when Breakthrough and Milestones Productions International, which operates PBC-owned UNTV, decided to operate the 107.5 frequency and relaunch the station as "Wish 107.5" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20Brief | Carbon Brief is a UK-based website specialising in the science and policy of climate change. It has won awards for investigative journalism and data visualisation. Leo Hickman is the director and editor for Carbon Brief.
Founding
Carbon Brief is funded by the European Climate Foundation, and has their office located in London. The website was established in response to the Climategate controversy.
Reception
The New York Times climate team's newsletter in May 2018 highlighted a CarbonBrief article about solar climate engineering, as insightful.
Carbon Brief's climate-and-energy coverage is often cited by news outlets, or climate related websites. YALE Climate Communications highlighted a summary of climate model projections, a 2011 The Guardian article quoted then-editor Christian Hunt, in 2017 The New York Times cited climate scientist Zeke Hausfather, and in 2018 MIT Technology Review cited an analysis on emissions scenarios.
Awards
The Royal Statistical Society gave Carbon Brief a Highly Commended award for investigative journalism in 2018, for the article Mapped: How UK foreign aid is spent on climate change, authored by Leo Hickman and Rosamund Pearce, and in 2020 in the category data visualisation for How the UK transformed its electricity supply in just a decade. In 2017, Carbon Brief won The Drum Online Media Award for "Best Specialist Site for Journalism".
Carbon Brief's editor Leo Hickman was named 2020 Editor of the Year by the Association of British Science Writers. The judges commented:
See also
Climate Central
Skeptical Science
References
External links
CarbonBrief
Companies based in the London Borough of Southwark
British science websites
Climate change blogs
British environmental websites
Internet properties established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castleman%20Disease%20Collaborative%20Network | The Castleman Disease Collaborative Network (CDCN) is an organization focused on research and awareness of Castleman disease. It was founded in 2012 and has used a collaborative network approach to advance several research studies on Castleman disease.
History
The Castleman Disease Collaborative Network was founded in 2012 by Dr. Frits van Rhee and Dr. David Fajgenbaum, after Fajgenbaum was diagnosed with idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease as a medical student in 2010. Soon after its creation, the CDCN merged with the Castleman's Awareness and Research Effort (CARE).
Fajgenbaum has served as the executive director of the CDCN since its founding.
Activities
Research
The CDCN provides grant funding to support research on the etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management of Castleman disease. The CDCN is involved in longitudinal research initiatives designed to facilitate multiple projects.
ACCELERATE Natural History Study
The ACCELERATE (Accelerating Castlmean Care with an Electronic Longitudinal registry, E-Repository, And Treatment Effectiveness research) natural history study is a collaborative project between the CDCN, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and the University of Pennsylvania. It is a database of clinical information drawn from patients diagnosed with Castleman disease and includes symptoms, laboratory tests, imaging, pathology, and treatment approaches. The ACCELERATE study was designed to document the natural history of Castleman disease, range of clinical features associated with the disease, and response to treatment. Patients can enroll themselves in the ACCELERATE study online.
Castlebank
The Castlebank is a collaboration between the CDCN and the University of Pennsylvania to house a centralized biobank of tissue samples donated by patients with Castleman disease and collected from researcher around the world. The Castlebank is used to support collaborative research projects requiring tissue samples.
Drug Repurposing
The CDCN is committed to the discovery of new uses for existing drugs. Frits van Rhee and David Fajgenbaum discovered that "a drug that had been on the market for many years–Sirolimus–could be repurposed to fight Castleman Disease." The drug saved Fajgenbaum's life.
The CDCN has pioneered the following approach to drug repurposing (giving a drug for a use other than what it is approved for): 1) perform studies of biospecimens to identify cell types, signaling pathways, and genes/proteins that may be involved, 2) validate the discovery, 3) use bioinformatic tools and drug databases to identify drugs already FDA-approved for another condition that modulate the target, 4) administer the drug off-label or through a clinical trial, and 5) track the impact of the drug on the given disease.
The CORONA Project
In early 2020, the CDCN launched the CORONA (Covid Registry of Off-label and New Agents) project. CORONA is a publicly available central repository of therapies administered to COVID-19 patients dat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%20American%20Tail%3A%20The%20Computer%20Adventures%20of%20Fievel%20and%20His%20Friends | An American Tail: The Computer Adventures of Fievel and His Friends is point-and-click adventure game published by Capstone Software in 1993 for MS-DOS and developed by Manley & Associates. It is based on the films An American Tail and An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. The manual includes a glossary to define difficult words for younger players. In 1994 the game was released with Trolls and Rock-A-Doodle Computerized Coloring Book on the Capstone CD Game Kids Collection.
Gameplay
The player guides Fievel Mousekewitz to find and protect his family. The gameplay is a simplified click and point set of options without any deaths or dead ends. Whenever the mouse pointer is placed over a particular something, the icon changes to indicate that an appropriate action will take place to correspond with that icon, such as talking to characters, picking up items, looking at objects and going to another location. When talking to a character, the player will have multiple dialogue responses to choose from. Clicking on Fievel himself allows the player to give one or more items from his inventory to a character on screen. Throughout the game, the player must solve some mini-games to gain required items. Losing a mini-game has no consequence but requires the player to try again until the game is won by Fievel.
Development
The game uses digitized scenes from the first two films and was presented to the Chicago 1992 Summer Electronics Show.
Reception
Judy Muldawer reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World:
References
External links
1993 video games
Adventure games
An American Tail (franchise)
Capstone Software games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Manley & Associates games
Point-and-click adventure games
Video games about mice and rats
Video games based on animated films
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20J.%20Gordon | Geoffrey J. Gordon is a professor at the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and director of research at the Microsoft Montréal lab. He is known for his research in statistical relational learning (a subdiscipline of artificial intelligence and machine learning) and on anytime dynamic variants of the A* search algorithm. His research interests include multi-agent planning, reinforcement learning, decision-theoretic planning, statistical models of difficult data (e.g. maps, video, text), computational learning theory, and game theory.
Gordon received a B.A. in computer science from Cornell University in 1991, and a PhD at Carnegie Mellon in 1999.
References
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Cornell University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Microsoft employees
Machine learning researchers
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20J.%20Cole | Richard J. Cole is a Silver Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, and works on the Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms.
Research
His research areas include algorithmic economic market theory and game theory, string and pattern matching, amortization, parallelism, and network and routing problems. His notable research contributions include an optimal parallel algorithm for sorting in the PRAM model, and an optimal analysis of the Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm.
References
External links
Living people
American computer scientists
People educated at Ealing County Grammar School for Boys
Alumni of University College, Oxford
Cornell University alumni
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
20th-century American engineers
21st-century American engineers
20th-century American scientists
21st-century American scientists
Computer science educators
1957 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte%20%28disambiguation%29 | gigabyte (GB) is 10003 bytes.
Gigabyte may also refer to:
gibibyte (GiB), 10243 bytes, also called "gigabyte" (GB)
Gigabyte (virus writer), moniker of Kimberley Vanvaeck, for computer viruses
Gigabyte Technology, a Taiwanese computer hardware manufacturer
Gigabyte (journal), an open-science journal
Gigabyte (character), a fictional character from the CG animated children's TV show ReBoot; see List of ReBoot characters
See also
Giga Bite (character), a fictional video game character from the game Resident Evil Outbreak: File 2
Gigabit (Gb), 109 bits
Gibibit (Gib), 230 bits
GB (disambiguation)
Giga (disambiguation)
Byte (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNPE | WNPE (102.7 FM) is a public radio station, providing programming from The Public's Radio (formerly known as Rhode Island Public Radio) to southern Rhode Island from its transmitter at Narragansett Pier. It was the first FM transmitter in the network. Prior to operating noncommercially, the 102.7 facility was a commercial radio station from its sign-on in 1990 to 2007.
History
As a commercial radio station
On July 15, 1990, WPJB signed on. Reviving a historic call sign that had been abandoned at 105.1 FM in Providence when it became WWLI in 1985, WPJB broadcast an adult contemporary format and was owned and operated by Full Power Radio of Narragansett, Inc.
Full Power Radio of Narragansett sold WPJB to Back Bay Broadcasters for $1.05 million in 1997; the station became a simulcast of Back Bay's rhythmic CHR outlet WWKX "Kix 106" and changed its call letters to WAKX to reflect the new programming. Back Bay became AAA Entertainment in 1999; the two companies were commonly owned.
WWKX-WAKX added Howard Stern to its program lineup in 1998. The stations carried Stern through the end of his terrestrial radio run, though, alongside some other Citadel stations, "Hot 106" began cutting his show short because Stern was excessively promoting his soon-to-be-new home at Sirius Satellite Radio.
Citadel Broadcasting acquired WWKX, WAKX, and a station in Montauk, New York, from AAA Entertainment for $16.5 million in 2003; the sale of WAKX was not finished until 2005. Citadel immediately optioned WAKX, along with WKKB in Middletown, to Davidson Media Group in a $7.5 million sale, breaking the simulcast. By 2007, WAKX was running a smooth jazz format, leased out to Craig Rapoza.
Sale to Rhode Island Public Radio
On March 23, 2007, the former Foundation for Ocean State Public Radio, renamed Rhode Island Public Radio, announced its acquisition of WRNI (1290 AM), a National Public Radio member station run by WBUR-FM in Boston. At the same time, the foundation announced that it was buying WAKX from Davidson for $2.65 million, funded by the Rhode Island Foundation. The acquisition brought NPR service for the first time to southern Rhode Island communities that were outside of WRNI's coverage area, beginning May 17, 2007, when WAKX became WRNI-FM and began carrying WRNI's programming full-time. WAKX's former jazz programming moved to WALE (990 AM).
In 2018, concurrent with RIPR's relaunch as The Public's Radio, the call letters were changed to WNPE.
HD Radio multicast
From March 2013 until February 2018, MVYradio leased the HD2 multicast channel of WNPE to broadcast a modified content stream of WMVY 88.7 FM on Martha's Vineyard; this fed translator W243AI 96.5 FM, which broadcast from the roof of Newport Hospital. This allowed WMVY programming to continue being heard on the translator after the original WMVY was sold to Boston University and became WBUA.
References
External links
NPE
Radio stations established in 1990
1990 establishments in Rhode Island
NPR me |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20W%20Interactiva | Red W Interactiva was a talk radio network in Mexico that operated from October 22, 2001, to January 31, 2002. It was owned by Grupo Pegaso, headed by Alejandro Burillo Azcárraga.
History
Red W Interactiva commenced operations on October 22, 2001, featuring a format composed entirely of talk radio programs. It provided talk shows, radio serials, entertainment and celebrity programs, and an audio simulcast of Multivisión's main newscast. The network signed up dozens of affiliates across the country, as many as 48 at launch, and was heard in Mexico City on XEUR-AM 1530. Red W Interactiva's live, talk-heavy format was cited as being a good fit for stations in the interior of the country, at the time primarily on AM. The network also planned opt-out windows in its programming to incorporate local content.
The name of the network attracted some concern with regard to its similarity to XEW radio, colloquially known as "la W". According to Burillo, the name was chosen in order to "revive the tradition started by Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta".
Within months of operation, its owner, Grupo Pegaso, encountered cash flow difficulties that led it to close less profitable ventures, including Red W Interactiva. The network ceased operations on January 31, 2002, with the closure costing Pegaso more than one million dollars and leading to layoffs at the network's Mexico City headquarters. A group of the network's executives, led by Eugenio Bernal Macouzet, sought to continue operation of the network, saying that Pegaso had not given the project enough time to mature. Pegaso's larger problems led to the sale of its core cellular telephony business to Telefónica's Movistar division in 2002; the company also retained XEZHO-AM, a radio station in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, whose acquisition closed after the discontinuation of operations, on March 25, 2002.
The network had negotiated the rights to radio coverage of the 2002 FIFA World Cup together with Radiorama, MVS Radio, Cadena RASA, and Radio 13; the deal did not continue after Red W Interactiva was shuttered. The network's former affiliates also manifested their discontent against Grupo Pegaso for not maintaining several of the commitments the network had made once it discontinued operations.
Programs
In its brief three months on the air, Red W Interactiva carried a wide range of news, talk and audience participation programs. Daniel Bisogno, one of the hosts of TV Azteca's Ventaneando entertainment talk show, hosted the network's morning show, El exprimidor. Women's programming included the magazine program Diario de una mujer, hosted by Margarita Gralia. Telenovela actor José Ángel Llamas was part of the cast of the radio novel and contest program La recompensa, in which a 500,000-peso prize was on the line.
References
2001 establishments in Mexico
2002 disestablishments in Mexico
Mexican radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Onanay%20episodes | Onanay is a 2018 Philippine family drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series aired on the network's Telebabad evening block and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV from August 6, 2018 to March 15, 2019, replacing Kambal, Karibal.
NUTAM (Nationwide Urban Television Audience Measurement) People in Television Homes ratings are provided by AGB Nielsen Philippines.
Series overview
Episodes
August 2018
September 2018
October 2018
November 2018
December 2018
January 2019
February 2019
March 2019
References
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozamiz%E2%80%93Pagadian%20Road | The Ozamiz–Pagadian Road, also known as Aurora–Ozamis Road, is a two-to-four lane road network connecting the cities of Ozamiz in Misamis Occidental and Pagadian in Zamboanga del Sur. It traverses through Tangub and the municipality of Bonifacio at Misamis Occidental and the municipalities of Tambulig, Molave, Ramon Magsaysay, and Aurora at Zamboanga del Sur.
The entire highway is designated as National Route 78 (N78) of the Philippine highway network.
References
Ozamiz
Roads in Misamis Occidental
Roads in Zamboanga del Sur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halla%20Bol%21%20Kids%20TV | Halla Bol! Kids TV is a Canadian Category B-exempt Hindi language specialty channel owned by Channel Zero. Halla Bol! Kids TV broadcasts programming primarily aimed at children in addition to select family-oriented programming.
History
On January 9, 2012, FDR Media Group was given approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a specialty channel named "Hindi Children Channel", described as "a national, niche third-language ethnic Category 21 specialty programming undertaking that would consist of programs focussing on South Asian culture and entertainment catering to Canadian children of South Asian ethnicity from 3 to 10 years of age." Later that month, the channel was officially named Halla Bol! Kids TV.
At an undisclosed point, FDR's broadcast licenses were acquired by Channel Zero. Halla Bol! Kids TV debuted exclusively on Bell Fibe on January 16, 2014. On August 4, 2014, the channel launched in the United States through Dish Network and Sling TV. It was later made available on Rogers Cable and Telus Optik TV.
At the request of Channel Zero, the CRTC revoked the channel's Canadian broadcast license on February 21, 2018. The company continues to operate the channel under exempt status.
References
External links
Official website
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Channel Zero (company)
Children's television networks in Canada
Children's television networks in the United States
Defunct television networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2014
2014 establishments in Canada
Hindi-language television in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena%20Mouj%C3%A1n | Magdalena Araceli Mouján Otaño (1926–2005) was an Argentine mathematician of Basque descent, a pioneer of Argentine computer science, operations research, and nuclear physics, and an award-winning science fiction author.
Life
Mouján was born on March 26, 1926, in Pehuajó (Buenos Aires Province), the granddaughter of Basque writer . After studying mathematics at the National University of La Plata, she completed a doctorate in 1950.
She went on to hold teaching positions at the Catholic University of La Plata, the National University of Córdoba, the National University of Comahue and the National University of Luján, with a temporary hiatus beginning in 1966 because of the Argentine Revolution.
She died on July 17, 2005, in Mar del Plata.
Research
In 1957, Mouján became one of four founding members of an operations research group funded by the Argentine Army and led by mathematician Agustín Durañona y Vedia. In the 1960s, she joined the National Atomic Energy Commission and began using the , the first scientific computer in Argentina, at the University of Buenos Aires. Her calculations were used to help build the RA-1 Enrico Fermi nuclear reactor.
Writing
Mouján began writing science fiction in the early 1960s under a pseudonym, "Inge Matquim".
A science fiction story by Mouján, "Los Huáqueros", won joint first prize at Mardelcon, the 1968 Argentine science fiction convention.
Another of her stories, "Gu ta Gutarrak" (Basque for "we and ours"), was written in homage to her grandfather's 1899 poem of the same title, and as "a satire of the Basque nationalist myth of the antiquity and purity of the Basque race". It describes the adventures of a time-traveling Basque family who return to their homeland in the time of their ancestors. The story was accepted for a 1970 issue of the Spanish science fiction magazine Nueva Dimensión, but its publication was blocked by the Franco regime as being contrary to the ideals of Spanish unity. The story was translated into multiple languages, and finally republished by Nueva Dimensión in 1979, after Franco's death.
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1926 births
2005 deaths
Argentine mathematicians
Argentine women mathematicians
Argentine women computer scientists
Argentine science fiction writers
20th-century Argentine writers
20th-century Argentine women writers
Argentine people of Basque descent
Basque women writers
National University of La Plata alumni
Academic staff of the National University of Comahue
Writers from Buenos Aires
Scientists from Buenos Aires |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20Sensing%20Applications%20Center | The Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) is a facility of the United States Forest Service (USFS). It receives weather and fire-monitoring data remotely-sensed by satellites, and converts it into maps and reports for the USFS.
Location and purpose
The RSAC is a software development organization, housed at the same location as its corresponding operational organization, the USFS Geospatial Technology and Applications Center (GTAC), in Salt Lake City, Utah. The RSAC and GTAC assist USFS field operations with combined data from fire-monitoring and weather satellites and other remotely-sensed data, along with mapping and geological surveys (“geospatial technology”).
The RSAC's principal goal is to develop and implement less costly ways for the Forest Service to obtain information it needs to manage wildfires, water, and forest resources.
Notes
References
External links
United States Forest Service
Remote sensing research institutes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie%20Joplin | Katie Joplin is an American sitcom created by Tom Seeley and Norm Gunzenhauser that aired for one season on The WB Television Network (The WB) from August to September 1999. Park Overall stars as the title character, a single mother who moves from Knoxville to Philadelphia and tries to balance her job as a radio program host with parenting her teenage son Greg (Jesse Head). Supporting characters include Katie's niece Liz Berlin (Ana Reeder) as well as her co-workers, played by Jay Thomas, Jim Rash, and Simon Rex. Majandra Delfino guest-starred in three episodes as the daughter of the radio station's general manager.
Warner Bros. Television produced the series, and its premise was developed from a pitch that Overall gave to The WB. The network initially optioned the show as a potential mid-season replacement for the 1998–1999 television season, but it was delayed for a year due to production issues. Production on Katie Joplin was halted in October 1998 because The WB and Warner Bros. Television were disappointed with its development.
Katie Joplin received the lowest ratings for any original program The WB aired in its time slot. Before the show's premiere, The WB already decided to cancel it, feeling it would not connect with a younger demographic. Only five episodes aired, although seven were filmed. Critics recommended Katie Joplin prior to its premiere, and the delay in its airing was a subject of discussion. Retrospective reviews of the series were negative and focused on its short run.
Premise and characters
The series follows Katie Joplin (Park Overall), a single mother to her 14-year-old son Greg (Jesse Head). While living in Knoxville, she is disappointed with her job in a bottling plant, where she works 16 hours a day. She moves to Philadelphia, to track down her estranged husband Jerry and find a new job. Katie's niece Liz Berlin (Ana Reeder) allows her and Greg to live in her loft on a temporary basis. Liz is an editor at a popular fashion magazine, and television historians Tim Brooks and Earle F. Marsh described her as a fashion plate. Katie first works for the Crescent Corset Company and later Car City, while her son attends Benjamin Franklin High School.
Katie makes a positive first impression with WLBP-FM's general manager Glen Shotz (Jay Thomas) while trying to sell him a car. Thomas approached his character from a sympathetic viewpoint; he explained: "I'm trying to make this guy more human than any general manager I've ever had." Brooks and Marsh wrote Katie impressed Glen with her "perception, Southern wit, and strong opinions" and said she received a job to host a phone-in radio program because of her "out-spoken nature". Episodes are often about Katie's attempt to balance her career and her relationship with her son. Head said that he shared several characteristics with Greg, explaining that they both come from small towns and enjoy "the music and baggy pants".
During her six-hour overnight show, entitled The Katie Jopl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jess%20Tom | Jessica "Jess" Tom (born March 24, 1984) is an American television personality and food writer who came to prominence as the joint winner of the fourteenth season of the Food Network television series Food Network Star (along with Christian Petroni).
Personal life
Tom's mother is from Madagascar while her father is from China. She has cousins by the names of Jonathan and Grace. She has been married since 2016 and she publicly refers to her husband only as "D".
References
External links
1984 births
American businesspeople
American food writers
American people of Malagasy descent
American writers of Chinese descent
American television chefs
Food Network chefs
Food Network Star winners
Living people
People from Queens, New York
American women chefs
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Petroni | Christian Petroni is an American celebrity chef and restaurateur. He came to prominence in 2018 as the joint winner of the fourteenth season of the Food Network television series Food Network Star (along with Jess Tom).
In 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 he has participated in the culinary competition reality television series Guy Fieri's Tournament of Champions (Food Network), seasons 1-4.
References
External links
American television chefs
Date of birth missing (living people)
Food Network chefs
Food Network Star winners
Living people
American male chefs
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from the Bronx |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky%20Living | Sky Living was a British pay television channel owned and operated by Sky. The channel's programming was aimed mainly at women and young adults. It originally launched as UK Living.
History
UK Living began broadcasting on 1 September 1993, as part of the Sky Multichannels network, broadcasting for 18 hours a day, between 7am and 1am (changing in 1995 to 6am until midnight). It was originally owned by a three way partnership; former ITV London franchise holder Thames Television, Tele-Communications Inc. and fellow cable communications company Cox Enterprises, with a budget of £25million.
By January 1994, Flextech (later known as Virgin Media Television and Living TV Group), took over TCI's shares in UK Living as part of a deal between the two companies
By 1996, Telewest's Flextech division gained full control, after buying out the now-defunct Thames and Cox Enterprises. Shortly afterwards the channel moved away from its reliance on BBC programming, and increase its output of American programming.
In 1997, when the BBC and Flextech launched the UKTV Network: UK Style, UK Horizons and UK Arena, it was decided that UK Living would remain a separate channel. As such, it had to remove the 'UK' branding to avoid being confused with the UKTV services; thus UK Living became Living.
Living launched its website in 2001 as livingtv.co.uk, prior to the channel being renamed LivingTV in December 2001. This was initially represented on-screen by the addition of the letters 'TV' to the established logo. In a 2004 branding relaunch, the way the name was displayed changed to LIVINGtv.
On 28 October 2002, LivingTV launched its first timeshift, LivingTV +1. The channel was a 1-hour timeshift of LivingTV.
In a further change in 2007, the channel name reverted from LIVINGtv back to LIVING (still officially spelt all in capitals, though some media write the name in normal case). In 2009, the idents were changed to a 3D logo, with glass on the side of the 'L' in either pink or blue. Other idents show the logo covered in paint, while Livingit adopted a slightly different appearance.
On 1 April 2009, Living +2, a two-hour timeshift of the channel, launched,. It lasted for 15 months and was replaced on 1 July 2010, ahead of the launch of Living Loves.
On 12 June 2009, a high-definition version of the channel was announced as part of a cross-platform strategy to boost the channel's brand.
The channel launched on 6 October 2009 exclusively on Virgin Media. and on 2 September 2010, it launched on Sky channel 224.
On 1 February 2011, the Living HD channel was relaunched as Sky Living HD.
Sky ownership
BSkyB announced on 25 October 2010, that Living would be rebranded as Sky Living in early 2011 and moving EPG positions on Sky from channel 112 to 107, between Sky One and Sky Atlantic, to improve their entertainment line-up. As part of an attempt to appeal more to men, the channel's pink branding was replaced by a blue and silver logo in September 2013.
On 8 June 20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie%20Central%20%28Philippine%20TV%20channel%29 | Movie Central was a Philippine pay television channel created by ABS-CBN and one of the freemium channels of ABS-CBN TVplus. The channel's programming consists of mainly foreign and Hollywood movies. It was the second digital terrestrial television-exclusive movie channel after Cine Mo!, which also airs Hollywood and foreign movies in original English audio. Movie Central operated daily from 7:00 AM to 1:00 AM of the following day. It was available for a free-trial basis from July 30, 2018, to May 5, 2020, alongside O Shopping (standalone DTV), Asianovela Channel, Jeepney TV, and Myx.
Movie Central permanently ceased broadcasting on May 5, 2020, due to the cease-and-desist order issued by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) and Solicitor General Jose Calida against ABS-CBN. On September 10, 2020, the NTC reclaimed all frequencies assigned to ABS-CBN.
Most of the films aired on Movie Central were moved to Kapamilya Channel via Movie Central Presents movie presentation block which airs during late night hours, exclusive to pay cable and satellite television, replacing O Shopping.
Final programming
Content
Movie Central carried films from various Hollywood film studios (Walt Disney Studios, 20th Century Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and selected independent film studios).
Programming blocks
Action Zone – a weekday early-evening showcase of mostly action films.
Date Night – a programming block dedicated primarily to romantic films.
Hit Play Now – blockbuster movies from various genres are presented.
Thriller Theater – a late-night programming block featuring mostly horror and suspense movies.
Movie Blowout – a Saturday night block showcasing well-loved blockbuster movies.
Sunday Double Rumble – a Sunday night block featuring two movies of the same genre.
The Rundown - a documentary block featuring two movies of the same genre, airing back-to-back every Monday night.
References
External links
ABS-CBN Corporation channels
Creative Programs
Movie channels in the Philippines
English-language television stations in the Philippines
Television networks in the Philippines
Defunct television networks in the Philippines
Television channels and stations established in 2018
2018 establishments in the Philippines
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2020
2020 disestablishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand%27s%20Got%20Talent%20%28season%207%29 | Thailand's Got Talent season 7 (also known as TGT) was the seventh season of the Thailand's Got Talent reality television series on the Workpoint TV television network, and part of the global British Got Talent series. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, sketch artists, comedians and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top prize of 1,000,000 Baht. The show debuted on 6 August 2018. Thailand is also the fifth country in Asia to license Got Talent series. The four judges Yuhtlerd Sippapak, Jennifer Kim, Cris Horwang and Pongsak Rattanaphong join hosts Ketsepsawat Palagawongse na Ayutthaya.
Auditions
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Week 1 (August 6, 2018)
Week 2 (August 13, 2018)
Week 3 (August 20, 2018)
Week 4 (August 27, 2018)
Week 5 (September 3, 2018)
Week 6 (September 10, 2018)
Week 7 (September 17, 2018)
Week 8 (September 24, 2018)
Week 9 (October 1, 2018)
Week 10 (October 8, 2018)
Semifinals
Semifinalists
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Semifinals summary
Buzzed out
Judges' pick
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Week 11 - Semi-final 1 (October 15, 2018)
Week 12 - Semi-final 2 (October 22, 2018)
Week 13 - Semi-final 3 (October 29, 2018)
Week 14 - Semi-final 4 (November 5, 2018)
Final
Week 15 - Final (November 12, 2018)
Winner
Runner-up
References
External links
Thailand's Got Talent seasons
2018 Thai television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandeis%20Marshall | Brandeis Marshall is an American data scientist, CEO of DataedX, and Full Professor of Computer Science at Spelman College, where she is the former Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. Starting in September 2019, Marshall is a faculty associate at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She has also worked to broaden participation in the field of data science to increase representation of underrepresented minorities, including her effort 'Black Women in Data'.
Education
Marshall received her bachelor's degree in Science in computer science with a minor in mathematics from the University of Rochester in 2000. She then received her master's degree and Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Computer Science in 2007.
Research and career
In 2008, Marshall became an assistant professor of computer and information technology in data management at Purdue University's College of Technology. She joined the faculty at Spelman College in 2014 as an associate professor of Computer Science in the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and became Chair of the Computer and Information Sciences department in 2016. At Spelman, she is the Director of the Data Analytics and Exploration (da+e) Laboratory, which centers on more effectively characterizing complex networks of data to generate useful knowledge. Her research focuses on business intelligence and data analytics, social media, and cybersecurity.
#BlackTwitter Project
One of Marshall's research projects centers on the use of social media, and Twitter in particular, for advancing social movements across the black community through the use of the hashtag #BlackTwitter. Her team works with Twitter's application programming interface (API) to gather, analyze, and visualize trends in Twitter data to answer questions like who makes up Black Twitter, who are the influencers within the community, and what issues and topics are they responding to as a community. The project also took the form of a course for Spelman College's Interdisciplinary Big Questions Colloquia, exposing students to principles of data science through by collecting, storing, and analyzing social media data related to the #BlackGirlMagic hashtag. Analysis of the efficacy of the course itself was presented at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Frontiers in Education Conference as a way to teach data science concepts in a culturally relevant framework, since the course also wove in themes of black girlhood alongside computational approaches to data analysis.
Business Intelligence
Marshall has also contributed research to business intelligence, working to organize, integrate, represent, and analyze a diverse array of data to enable businesses to glean more knowledge and keep pace with the increasing rate of data generation. She has worked on a broad range of problems—from recommending more refined algorithms for music recommendations to designing cost-effect |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Pollock%20%28journalist%29 | John Pollock is a Canadian sports reporter best known for his work on Fight Network Radio, Live Audio Wrestling and founding the website POST Wrestling. He has also produced the acclaimed documentary Bret Hart: Survival of the Hitman about professional wrestler Bret Hart.
Early life
Pollock was born in Toronto.
Career
Pollock began his career as a professional wrestling and combat sports reporter with the Fight Network for their radio show The LAW with co-host Wai-Ting. After the show was cancelled in 2017, due to financial issues from the parent company Anthem, the two of them created their own website POSTWrestling where they report on news and feature podcasts.
Pollock also produced the 2010 documentary film Bret Hart: Survival of the Hitman which is about Canadian professional wrestler Bret Hart who is Pollock's favorite wrestler, the film is about Hart's return to the wrestling industry after 10 years of isolation. In 2019 he also produced and starred in the audio documentary Owen Hart's Final Day.
Personal life
Pollock is friendly with former wrestling referee Jimmy Korderas and helped him get work on The Fight Network.
References
Further reading
Chris Charlton; Eggshells: Pro Wrestling in the Tokyo Dome, 2018
External links
Website
Professional wrestling journalists and columnists
Canadian sports journalists
Canadian podcasters
Radio personalities from Philadelphia
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesler | Tesler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Brian Tesler (born 1929), British television producer and executive
Larry Tesler (1945–2020), American computer scientist
See also
List of Tron characters#Tesler, fictional character
Tesla (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacek%20B%C5%82a%C5%BCewicz | Jacek Antoni Błażewicz (born 11 August 1951, Poznań) is a Polish computer scientist specializing in the theory of algorithms and bioinformatics. He has been working as Director of the Institute of Computer Sciences of the Poznań University of Technology. He is also Head of the Department of Bioinformatics at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Life and career
He was born on 11 August 1951, in Poznań, Polish People's Republic. He graduated in control engineering with honours from the Poznań University of Technology in 1974. In 1977, he obtained a doctoral degree at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. In 1980, he received his habilitation and in 1987 he became a full professor. Between 1981-1984, he worked as a vice-Dean of the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Poznan University of Technology. In 1995, he was appointed Head of the Laboratory of Algorithm Design and Programming Systems. In the years 1994-1999 he was also employed at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Since 1999 he has been working at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Between 2012-2013, he was a member of the National Science Centre. He is most notable for his research into DNA sequencing, DNA computing and the theory of algorithms. In 2012, he shared the Copernicus Award (together with Erwin Pesch) "for their joint research and development of algorithms in the field of scheduling and bioinformatics".
He is a member of a number of scientific associations including Polish Cybernetics Association, Polish Society of Bioinformatics, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Mathematical Society and Polish Information Processing Society. Błażewicz is also a member of editorial boards of numerous scientific journals and magazines such as Journal of Heuristics, Journal of Scheduling, Parallel Computing, Memetic Algorithms, Computational Methods in Science and Technology and Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences. He has been a visiting professor at such universities and institutions as National Research Council, Rome; Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld; Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax; Saarland University, Saarbrücken; Grenoble Institute of Technology; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; he has also been an EPSRC Fellow at University of Nottingham and a member of EPSRC Peer Review College.
Awards
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2013)
Copernicus Award (2012)
Honorary degree of the University of Siegen (2006)
Scientific Award of the City Council of Poznań (2006)
EURO Gold Medal of the Association of European Operational Research Societies (1991)
Scientific Award of the Scientific Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1980)
Selected publications
Błażewicz is an author and co-author of around 300 scientific publications and 15 monographs, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion%20polling%20for%20the%202019%20Australian%20federal%20election | In the leadup to the 2019 federal election, a number of polling companies conducted regular opinion polls for various news organisations. These polls collected data on party's primary vote, and contained an estimation of the two-party-preferred vote. They also asked questions about views of the electorate about the major party leaders.
Graphical summary
Voting intention
Preferred prime minister, and satisfaction
See also
2019 Australian federal election
Electorate opinion polling for the 2019 Australian federal election
References
Opinion polling, national
2019 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%20648 | National Cycle Network (NCN) Route 648 is a Sustrans National Route that connects Bakewell to Sherwood Forest. The route has opened between Sherwood Forest and Shirebrook and is in length and is signed in both directions.
Route
Route 648 will connect Route 680 near Bakewell to Route 6 at Sherwood Forest. As of 2018, the only 5 miles between Shirebrook railway station and Route 6 is open. The route is a mixture of traffic free sections and roadside cycle paths.
Route 648 meets the following routes:
6 at Sherwood Forest
References
External links
Route 648 on the Sustrans web site
Route 648 on OSM
Cycleways in England
National Cycle Routes
Sherwood Forest
Transport in Nottinghamshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha%20DX100%20%28synthesizer%29 | The Yamaha DX100 is an FM synthesizer released by Yamaha in 1986. It offers four operators for each of its eight voices, and has eight algorithms (compared to the DX7's six operators for each of its sixteen voices, and thirty-two algorithms). It has only 49 mini-keys, and no arpeggiator or effects, but is still useful, known in particular for its bass patch #1. It features up to 192 presets, seriously improving the DX7's limited preset capabilities. It can also store 24 user-programmable sounds in RAM. It lacks cartridge support, but voice patches can be saved to and loaded from an external cassette recorder.
It was the cheapest user-programmable FM synthesiser made in the 1980s, leading to its popularity even amongst professional musicians in the 80s and 90s. It's essentially a cut down version of the DX21 and DX27, using the same FM chip, the YM2164.
Notable users
Aphex Twin
Juan Atkins
Autechre
Laurent Garnier
Howard Jones
Jean-Michel Jarre
Teddy Riley
Orbital
Roger Troutman
Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo
Kraftwerk (during live performances)
Joe Jackson (during live performances)
See also
Yamaha DX1
Yamaha DX5
Yamaha DX7
Yamaha DX9
Yamaha DX11
Yamaha DX21
Yamaha DX27 / 27S
References
Further reading
External links
Yamaha black boxes: Yamaha DX100 digital programmable algorithm synthesizer
DX7
Polyphonic synthesizers
Digital synthesizers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Corporation%20of%20America | Computer Corporation of America (CCA) was a computer software and database systems company founded in 1965. It was best known for its Model 204 (M204) database system for IBM and compatible mainframes.
It was acquired by Rocket Software in 2010.
Corporate history
Founded in 1965, Computer Corporation of America (CCA) was a computer software and database systems. with offices in Technology Square, Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Their primary database product, first deployed in 1972, was Model 204 (M204), which ran on IBM mainframes. It incorporates a programming language and an environment for application development.
CCA operated the ARPANET Datacomputer.
In 1992, CCA purchased the System 1022 and System 1032 assets of Software House; these database systems were designed for Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-10 and VAX systems, respectively.
In 1984, CCA was purchased by Crowntek, a Toronto-based company. Crowntek sold Computer Corporation of America's Advanced Information Technology division to Xerox Corporation in 1988.
The balance of CCA was acquired by Rocket Software, a Boston-based developer of enterprise infrastructure products, in April 2010.
CCA EMACS
Early Ads for ''CCA EMACS (Computer Corporation of America) (Steve Zimmerman) appeared in 1984. 1985 comparisons to GNU Emacs, when it came out, mentioned free vs. $2,400.
References
2010 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1965
American companies disestablished in 2010
Companies based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Software companies established in 1965
Software companies disestablished in 2010
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zobrist | Zobrist is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Albert Lindsey Zobrist (born 1942), American computer scientist, games researcher, and inventor
Ben Zobrist (born 1981), American baseball player
Julianna Zobrist (born 1984), American musician |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%2027%29 | Season twenty-seven of Dancing with the Stars premiered on September 24, 2018, on the ABC network.
On November 19, radio personality Bobby Bones and Sharna Burgess were crowned the champions, while Disney Channel star Milo Manheim and Witney Carson finished in second place, actress Evanna Lynch and Keo Motsepe finished in third place, and social media personality Alexis Ren and Alan Bersten finished in fourth.
Cast
Couples
This season featured thirteen celebrity contestants. The thirteen professional dancers were revealed on Good Morning America on August 28, 2018. The ten professionals from last season returned, along with Cheryl Burke and Valentin Chmerkovskiy, both of whom had last competed in season 25. Troupe dancer Brandon Armstrong made his debut in the pro lineup. Nancy McKeon was announced as the first celebrity competing for the season, partnered with Chmerkovskiy. On September 12, the rest of the cast was revealed on Good Morning America. The dance troupe for season 27 consisted of season 26 troupe members Artur Adamski, Hayley Erbert, Britt Stewart, and Morgan Larson; along with newcomer Vladislav Kvartin.
Hosts and judges
Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews returned as hosts, while Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli returned as judges.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1: First Dances
On the first night, all of the couples performed. On the second night, the bottom five couples were given a chance to dance again, in the same dance style as the first night, but with new music and choreography. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Night 1
Night 2
Week 2: New York City Night & Vegas Night
The couples performed two different unlearned dances that paid tribute to New York City and Las Vegas. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Night 1 (New York City)
Night 2 (Las Vegas)
Week 3: Most Memorable Year Night
The couples performed one unlearned dance to celebrate the most memorable year of their lives. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 4: Trio Night
The couples performed a trio dance with a past celebrity contestant or a personal acquaintance. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 5: Disney Night
The couples performed one unlearned dance to a song from a Disney film, and are listed in the order they performed. There was no elimination at the end of the night.
Week 6: Halloween Night
The couples performed one unlearned dance to a Halloween-themed song. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 7: Country Night
The couples performed one unlearned dance and a team dance to country songs. Couples are listed in the order they performed. Two couples |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20entry | Data entry is the process of digitizing data by entering it into a computer system for organization and management purposes. It is a person-based process and is "one of the important basic" tasks needed when no machine-readable version of the information is readily available for planned computer-based analysis or processing.
Sometimes what is needed is "information about information (that) can be greater than the value of the information itself." It can also involve filling in required information which is then "data-entered" from what was written on the research document, such as the growth in available items in a category. This is a higher level of abstraction than metadata, "information about data." Common errors in data entry include transposition errors, misclassified data, duplicate data, and omitted data, which are similar to bookkeeping errors.
Procedures
Data entry is often done with a keyboard and at times also using a mouse, although a manually-fed scanner may be involved.
Historically, devices lacking any pre-processing capabilities were used.
Keypunching
Data entry using keypunches was related to the concept of batch processing – there was no immediate feedback.
Computer keyboards
Computer keyboards and online data-entry provide the ability to give feedback to the data entry clerk doing the work.
Numeric keypads
The addition of numeric keypads to computer keyboards introduced quicker and often also less error-prone entry of numeric data.
Computer mouse
The use of a computer mouse, typically on a personal computer, opened up another option for doing data entry.
Touch screens
Touch screens introduced even more options, including the ability to stand and do data entry, especially given "a proper height of work surface when performing data entry."
Spreadsheets
Although most data entered into a computer are stored in a database, a significant amount is stored in a spreadsheet. The use of spreadsheets instead of databases for data entry can be traced to the 1979 introduction of Visicalc, and what some consider the wrong place for storing computational data continues.
Format control and specialized data validation are reasons that have been cited for using database-oriented data entry software.
Data managements
The search for assurance about the accuracy of the data entry process predates computer keyboards and online data entry. IBM even went beyond their 056 Card Verifier and developed their quieter IBM 059 model.
Modern techniques go beyond mere range checks, especially when the new data can be evaluated using probability about an event.
Assessment
In one study, a medical school tested its second year students and found their data entry skills – needed if they are to do small-scale unfunded research as part of their training – were below what the school considered acceptable, creating potential barriers.
See also
Two pass verification
Quality control
Clinical data management
Data verification
Data entry clerk
Input |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarfman | Scarfman is a clone of Pac-Man written by Philip A. Oliver for the TRS-80 computer and published by The Cornsoft Group in 1981. A version for the TRS-80 Color Computer followed in 1982 as Color Scarfman, which uses 64x64 low resolution graphics.
Oliver also wrote the Enhanced BASIC Compiler for the TRS-80 Model III and 4.
Gameplay
Scarfman is a game in which the player is Scarfman, trying to eat the dots in a maze filled with them along with five power capsules, avoiding the five monsters that roam the maze. Unlike Pac-Man, there are five monsters instead of four. Eating a power pill causes monsters to lower their eyes, indicating that they're vulnerable. The eyes shift to the normal position when the pill's effect wears off. In Color Scarfman, eating a power pill causes the ghosts to remain vulnerable—indicated by turning blue—until eaten or the level ends.
Reception
Dan Ekblaw reviewed Scarfman in The Space Gamer number 54. Ekblaw commented that "Overall, I would say that Scarfman'''s defects outweigh its good points by far. I've found that this game loses its novelty after a few weeks and will spend the rest of its days sitting on a shelf".
In a 2012 retrospective, Gamasutra wrote that the "chirp-chirp-chirp chomping sound effect is maddening. But it does play like Pac-Man, more or less".
References
External links
Review in Creative ComputingReview in Personal Computer World''
1981 video games
Dragon 32 games
Pac-Man clones
TRS-80 games
TRS-80 Color Computer games
Video games about food and drink
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accent%20R | Accent R (the "R" is for Relational: Relational database, Relational model), is a fourth-generation programming language that was first installed in 1980. Initially available for Digital Equipment Corporation's DECsystem-10 and DECSYSTEM-20, a VAX version was released and installed
January 1982.
It was developed by National Information Systems, Inc (NIS), and contains a compiled structured programming language that can replace 3GL coding. Accent R goes beyond use of RMS: Oracle and Sybase are among the database systems supported.
Accent R is also supported on Linux.
About National Information Systems, Inc (NIS)
National Information Systems, initially a Silicon Valley company, was founded in 1972 as a software company focused on providing tools for software developers. Their DPL (Data Processing Language), written for the DECsystem-10 and DECSYSTEM-20, competed with Software House's System 1022. Both were used in the financial services industry, where some companies used both.
By 1988 NIS worked out and announced a cooperative marketing agreement with Sybase.
The company's headquarters are now in Reno, Nevada.
References
External links
National Information Systems (NIS) Home Page
Fourth-generation programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhaya%20Datar | Chhaya Datar (also Chāyā Dātāra born 1944) is an Indian activist, writer and feminist. Datar writes in Marathi and English.
Career
Datar began writing and becoming politically active out of frustration as living as a housewife. She wrote her first collection of short stories in Marathi, Goshta Sādhī Saral Sopī in 1972 and her second, Vartulacha Ant in 1977. She is also one of the founders of a publishing group based in Bombay, called Stri Uvach (A Woman Said). After her short stories, she went on to work on studying women's issues. Earning a scholarship to study in the Netherlands, she completed a master's degree at the International Institute of Social Studies of Rotterdam in 1981. She returned to India and was one of the founders of an anti-violence group called the Forum Against Rape. In 1988, she became a women's studies lecturer at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Later she earned a PhD from the SNDT Women's University, and became head of the women's studies department at the Tata Institute.
In Waging Change: Women Tobacco Workers in Nipani Organize (1989), Datar examines women's struggles for both political and economic justice in Nipani through the context of cigarette workers. In Signs, reviewer Chandra Talpade Mohanty, writes that Datar's Waging Change is an "elegantly crafted, detailed analysis of the organizational history of women bidi (hand-rolled cigarette) workers." In her autobiographical story, In Search of Myself, she examines her own experiences and describes how communing with one's own tribal space allows women to have a sense of freedom. She also describes in this story how tribal women find themselves by sharing their own experiences. Datar also discusses Dalit feminism in her works.
Datar has been published in Contemporary Sociology, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, and has contributed to the journal published by Men Against Violence and Abuse (MAVA), Purush Spandana. She released Tarihi Shesh on International Women's Day 2017.
Selected bibliography
References
1944 births
21st-century Indian women writers
Indian feminist writers
Marathi-language writers
Living people
Women's studies academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten%20Bibbins-Domingo | Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is an American epidemiologist and physician. She is the 17th Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the JAMA Network. She is Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. She is a general internist and attending physician at San Francisco General Hospital.
Bibbins-Domingo is a recognized expert in prevention and health equity and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed original research articles. She is a cardiovascular disease epidemiologist whose work focuses on clinical and public health approaches to prevention, particularly in young adults. She served as the chair, vice-chair, and member of the United States Preventive Services Task Force from 2010 to 2017.
At UCSF she served as the inaugural Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity in the UCSF School of Medicine, and was the Chair of the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics from 2017 to 2022. In 2006, Bibbins-Domingo co-founded the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, a research center focused on advancing health equity and reducing health disparities in the San Francisco Bay Area, nationally, and globally.
Bibbins-Domingo was a trustee of Princeton University from 2018 to 2022.
Early life and college
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo was born in Stuttgart, Germany while her father was stationed in the country. Bibbins-Domingo attended Eleanor Roosevelt, a public science tech high school in Maryland.
She graduated from Princeton University in 1987 with a degree in molecular biology and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. She then received a PhD in biochemistry, an MD, and a Masters in Clinical Research from the University of California, San Francisco. Her Ph.D. advisor was Harold E. Varmus. Bibbins-Domingo also studied chemistry at the University of Ibadan.
Career
Bibbins-Domingo is an NIH funded investigator who uses observational studies, simulation models, and pragmatic trials to understand the development of cardiovascular risk and examine the impact of clinical and public health approaches to cardiovascular disease prevention.
Her work published in the New England Journal of Medicine highlighted the high rate of incident heart failure among African American men and women before age 50 She has also published on the impact or adolescent obesity on future rates of cardiovascular disease in young adults. She has led two NIH center grants focused on disparities in diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and stroke in young adulthood.
Her work has examined the population health impact of policy approaches to reduce consumption of salt and sugary beverages. in the US and in other countries. These publications helped inform policy changes and public health interventions, including taxation of sugary beverages and interventions aimed at populatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Yu-sik | Kim Yu-sik (; ; born 17 February 1971) is the founder of the South Korean Internet community DC Inside.
Life
Early life
Thanks to his journalist father, he encountered computer earlier than other children. In early 1980s, in his sixth grade at elementary school, he learned to use a computer at Hagwon. In the 1990s, gaining reputation on internet by humorous posts on HiTEL's humor board, he decided to make money from the internet, and went abroad to study at Japan's Shinjuku Information Business School, but dropped out, disappointed that it taught using Japanese word processors on XT-16-bit computers instead of website creation. He grew a business on selling Japanese electronic devices and Game/Movie CDs to Korean PC network's buy/sell board on a high price. After returning to Korea in 1995, he started posting laptop user reviews on HiTEL's notebook club.
Founding DC Inside
HiTEL suggested him to write laptop reviews on World Wide Web. He created two websites, one about laptops and one about Digital cameras. The latter is DC Inside, while the former Notebook Inside () is soon closed.
References
1971 births
People from Seoul
Kyung Hee Cyber University alumni
South Korean businesspeople
South Korean atheists
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20Now%21%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Action Now! was a Dutch pay television movie channel, broadcasting in the Netherlands and Flanders. The programming of the channel mainly consisted of action movies. In November 2008 Dutch largest cable company Ziggo removed Action Now! from its network, followed by Caiway on 1 April 2009. The availability of Action Now! dropped considerably in the Netherlands, resulting in the closure of the channel on 31 May 2009.
References
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2009
2006 establishments in the Netherlands
2009 disestablishments in the Netherlands
Defunct television channels in the Netherlands
Defunct television channels in Belgium |
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Tempelhofer Feld (English: Tempelhof Field) historically was an area in Berlin used for military practice, and as a parade ground of the Berlin garrison. It belonged to the Tempelhofer uplands on the Teltow plateau, in the south of Berlin. Tempelhofer Feld is closely linked to German military and aviation history, as well as German soccer history. Today it is a developed area, with the exception of the Tempelhofer Feld park on the site of the former Tempelhof Airport.
History
On 3 November 1897, the world's first rigid airship, an all-metal craft designed by Hungarian inventor David Schwarz, equipped with a 12-hp/9-kW Daimler engine, and shaped like a short, fat pencil, set off on its maiden flight from Tempelhofer Feld. It was destroyed on landing; pilot Ernst Jagels escaped with minor injuries.
Parade ground
The field located between the towns of Schöneberg and Tempelhof, then also known as Großes Feld (Great Field), was used by Schöneberg farmers as farmland until the 18th century. Under Frederick William I, it was also used as a military parade and drill ground from 1722 onwards, as well as a maneuvering area for the Prussian army. On August 2, 1881, the Hawaiian king Kalākaua was guest of a parade on the field. The function as a parade ground was maintained until spring 1914.
Berlin-Tempelhof Airport
In 1922, work began to turn the area into Tempelhof Airport. The initial construction was completed by 1928, with further expansion planned by Ernst Sagabiel in 1934. The new airport building was then built from 1936 to 1941.
Starting in 1940, the airport building was used exclusively by the arms industry. For example, for the assembly and maintenance of the dive combat aircraft Ju 87. To conduct this work, thousands of forced laborers were brought from all over Europe, with their camps and accommodations located on the field itself.
After the end of World War II, flight operations resumed. The airport gained particular importance during the Berlin blockade from 1948 to 1949, with supply aircraft sometimes landing as often as every 90 seconds.
In 1970, after the construction of Tegel Airport, the airport was temporarily closed to civilian air traffic, reopening in 1985. All flight operations were later discontinued completely in 2008, due to the construction of the Berlin Brandenburg International Airport (BER), although this airport did not open until 2020.
Dispute about the continued use of the area
Two German political parties, the CDU and FDP, initiated a referendum against the shutdown of flight operations. The referendum ultimately failed after not getting enough support from local citizens.
Later, several thousand activists came together in an alliance called Squat Tempelhof in order to occupy the site and protest aga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottavio%20Paravicini | Ottavio Paravicini (1552–1611) was a Roman Catholic cardinal.
Early life
Born into the noble family from Valtellina, he was the son of Giovanni Michele Paravicini and Lomellina Laudata of Gaeta.
Biography
On 15 Jul 1584, he was consecrated bishop by Charles Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan, with Filippo Sega, Bishop of Piacenza, and Francesco Bossi, Bishop of Novara, serving as co-consecrators.
Episcopal succession
While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:
and the principal co-consecrator of:
Girolamo Bernerio, Bishop of Ascoli Piceno (1586);
Giovanni Evangelista Pallotta, Archbishop of Cosenza (1587); and
Marcello Lante della Rovere, Bishop of Todi (1607).
References
1552 births
1611 deaths
Apostolic Nuncios to Switzerland
17th-century Italian cardinals
16th-century Italian cardinals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence%20Assistance%20Organisation | The Defence Assistance Organisation (, ОСО), initially the Voluntary Defence Assistance Organisation (, ДОСО) was a government-sponsored network of youth clubs in the People's Republic of Bulgaria.
It was created in 1947 as the People's Union of Sports and Technics, a government-sponsored body where Bulgarian youth could voluntarily engage in activities that were in some form related to the Bulgarian People's Army. The People's Union was reformed into the Voluntary Defence Assistance Organisation in 1951.
It primarily consisted of various interest clubs for practical education in driving and automotive mechanics, amateur radio, sailing, shooting, paragliding, flight training and airmanship, diving and many others. DAO clubs were part of a concentric nationwide network and were usually attached to factories, collective farms and schools. In exchange for a symbolic membership fee, DAO members could access all types of training for free.
The organisation was absorbed by the Komsomol in 1968 and ceased to exist. It was re-established in 1977 as the Organisation for Military Technical Preparation of the Population, and again reorganised as DAO under the Council of Ministers in 1982. It was finally disbanded in 1992 after the collapse of Communism.
See also
Dimitrovist Pioneer Organization "Septemberists"
Gesellschaft für Sport und Technik, the East German equivalent
References
People's Republic of Bulgaria
Military of Bulgaria
Youth organizations based in Bulgaria
Youth organizations established in 1947
Organizations disestablished in 1992
Amateur radio organizations
Defunct organizations based in Bulgaria
1947 establishments in Bulgaria
1992 disestablishments in Bulgaria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberSpeed | CyberSpeed is a video game developed and published by Mindscape for the PlayStation and Windows.
Gameplay
CyberSpeed is a racing game where the vehicles are suspended from a force beam of energy.
Reception
Next Generation reviewed the PlayStation version of the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "It's not in the same league as Wipeout, but it's different and enjoyable in its own right."
Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it one star out of five, and stated that "The only winning grace is the mock commercials that run between races, and those are more ridiculous than funny. If you want a racing sim, check out Whiplash and avoid CyberSpeed like, well, Roseanne in a bikini."
Computer Game Review was broadly negative toward the game; the three reviewers concluded, "It is a damn good thing that Mindscape has other projects in the oven." PC Entertainment offered the game a rating of D.
Reviews
GamePro - Feb, 1996
All Game Guide - 1998
References
External links
CyberSpeed at GameFAQs
CyberSpeed at Giant Bomb
CyberSpeed at MobyGames
Mindscape games
PlayStation (console) games
Racing video games
Science fiction racing games
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C17%20%28C%20standard%20revision%29 | C17 is the informal name for ISO/IEC 9899:2018, the most recent standard for the C programming language, prepared in 2017 and published in June 2018. It replaced C11 (standard ISO/IEC 9899:2011), and will be superseded by C23 (ISO/IEC 9899:2023) when it is published in 2024. Since it was under development in 2017, and officially published in 2018, C17 is sometimes referred to as C18.
Changes from C11
C17 fixes numerous minor defects in C11 without introducing new language features.
The __STDC_VERSION__ macro is increased to the value 201710L.
For a detailed list of changes from the previous standard, see Clarification Request Summary for C11.
Compiler support
List of compilers supporting C17:
GCC 8.1.0
LLVM Clang 7.0.0
IAR EWARM v8.40.1
Microsoft Visual C++ VS 2019 (16.8)
Pelles C 9.00
See also
C++23, C++20, C++17, C++14, C++11, C++03, C++98, versions of the C++ programming language standard
Compatibility of C and C++
References
External links
C Language Working Group WG14 Documents
N2176 - final draft of C17 standard - posted October 9, 2017
C (programming language)
Programming language standards
IEC standards
ISO standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej%20Karpathy | Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986) is a Slovak-Canadian computer scientist who served as the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla. He currently works for OpenAI, where he specializes in deep learning and computer vision.
Biography
Karpathy was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) and moved with his family to Toronto when he was 15. He completed his Computer Science and Physics bachelor's degrees at University of Toronto in 2009 and his master's degree at University of British Columbia in 2011, where he worked on physically-simulated figures (for example, a simulated runner or a simulated person in a crowd).
Karpathy received a PhD from Stanford University in 2016 under the supervision of Fei-Fei Li, focusing on the intersection of natural language processing and computer vision, and deep learning models suited for this task. He authored and was the primary instructor of the first deep learning course at Stanford, CS 231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition. It became one of the largest classes at Stanford, growing from 150 students in 2015 to 750 in 2017.
Karpathy is a founding member of the artificial intelligence research group OpenAI, where he was a research scientist from 2015 to 2017. In June 2017 he became Tesla's director of artificial intelligence. He was named one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 for 2020. After taking a several months-long sabbatical from Tesla, he announced he was leaving the company in July 2022. As of February 2023, he makes YouTube videos on how to create artificial neural networks.
In February 2023, Karpathy announced he was returning to OpenAI.
References
External links
Machine learning researchers
Tesla, Inc. people
Stanford University alumni
Living people
1986 births
Slovak computer scientists
Slovak emigrants to Canada
Canadian computer scientists
Canadian people of Slovak descent
University of Toronto alumni
Scientists from Toronto
University of British Columbia alumni
People from Bratislava |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Zingaro | Daniel Zingaro is an associate professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga. His main areas of research are in evaluating Computer science education and online learning. He has co-authored over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences; and also authored a textbook, "Invariants: a Generative Approach to Programming.
Born visually impaired, Zingaro completed B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from McMaster University. He then received a Ph.D. from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto in Computer Science Education. His master's thesis was about formalizing and proving properties of parsers. His doctoral thesis was titled " Evaluating Peer Instruction in First-year University Computer Science Courses". Daniel Zingaro designed accessible computer games and published work in Computers & Education, International Computing Education Research (ICER) conference, Computer Science Education, British Journal of Educational Technology, and Transactions on Computing Education.
Selected publications
Awards
ICER Best Paper Award, 2014
SIGCSE 2016 best paper award
JOLT 2012 best paper award
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Toronto alumni
Canadian computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape%20sequence%20%28disambiguation%29 | An escape sequence, in computing, is a combination of characters that has a meaning other than the literal characters contained therein
Escape sequence may also refer to:
ANSI escape codes, standardized escape sequences to control cursor location, color, font styling on video text terminals and terminal emulators
Escape sequences in C (and similar languages), starting with a Backslash (\) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain%20at%20Abel | Cain Abel (International title: Color of My Blood / ) is a Philippine television drama action series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark A. Reyes, it stars Dingdong Dantes and Dennis Trillo. It premiered on November 19, 2018 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Victor Magtanggol. The series concluded on February 15, 2019 with a total of 65 episodes. It was replaced by Kara Mia in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Brothers, Daniel and Miguel grew up in different worlds as they were separated when they were kids. Daniel was raised in the city by his father, while Miguel, was taken by his mother and relocated to a fishing village where they struggled. Years later, the brothers are drawn together by their parents.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dingdong Dantes as Daniel Anthony Larrazabal
Dennis Trillo as Miguel Anthony Larrazabal / Elias Ledesma / Simon
Supporting cast
Solenn Heussaff as Abigail Buenaventura
Sanya Lopez as Margaret Tolentino
Eddie Gutierrez as Antonio Larrazabal
Chanda Romero as Belenita "Belen" Castillo-Larrazabal / Fe Ledesma
Dina Bonnevie as Priscilla "Precy" Rodrigo-Larrazabal
Ronnie Henares as Gener Buenaventura
Boy 2 Quizon as Juancho Pelaez
Shyr Valdez as Tina Tolentino
Leandro Baldemor as Darius Tolentino
Bing Pimentel as Linda Buenaventura
Ervic Vijandre as Alex Ibarra
Renz Fernandez as Louie Fernando
Pauline Mendoza as Patricia "Pat" Tolentino
Carlo Gonzales as Ronald Castro
Vince Vandorpe as Rafael R. Larrazabal
Djanin Cruz as Eunice
Guest cast
Yasmien Kurdi as young Belen
Rafael Rosell as young Antonio
Diana Zubiri as young Precy
David Remo as young Daniel
Seth dela Cruz as young Miguel
Zachi Rivera as young Margaret
Ashley Cabrera as young Abigail
Fabio Ide as Brent Evangelista
Ping Medina as Poldo
Marc Abaya as Ramon
Juan Rodrigo as Oscar Evangelista
Sophia Senoron as Julie
Euwenn Aleta as Samuel "Sammy" T. Ledesma
Carlos Agassi as Gabo
Dindo Arroyo as Jaime
Mika Gorospe as Jackie
Martin del Rosario as young William
Tommy Abuel as William Bernardino
Emilio Garcia as Treb / Boss Treb
Lucho Ayala as Roel
Muriel Lomadilla as Cacai
Ameera Johara as Sabrina
Roi Vinzon as Diego Javellana Garcia
Jay Arcilla as Gilbert
Levi Ignacio as Carding
Ina Feleo as Lucille Ibarra
Accolades
References
External links
2018 Philippine television series debuts
2019 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine action television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityFleet%20Networks | CityFleet Networks, also known as CityFleet, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore-based ComfortDelGro that operates coach services under the brand Westbus UK, as well as taxi services in a number of UK cities under the brands ComCab, CityFleet Business and Comfort Executive.
It was initially set up in July 2001 as a joint venture between Singapore's Delgro Corporation (later ComfortDelGro) (51%) and Australia-based Cabcharge Australia (49%). In Australia, a similar joint venture between the two companies, known as ComfortDelGro Cabcharge (CDC), would later be set up in 2005 to purchase the Westbus Group from National Express, which included Westbus Australia and Westbus UK. Westbus UK was reorganised to be under CityFleet, and continued to operate independently from the Westbus in Australia.
In June 2017, Cabcharge sold its 49% stake to ComfortDelGro. Earlier that year, ComfortDelGro Cabcharge also became wholly owned by ComfortDelGro and renamed ComfortDelGro Australia.
Operations
CityFleet Networks operates:
Westbus UK
ComCab (Computer Cab)
Comfort Executive
CityFleet Business
Westbus UK
In 1986, Westbus Australia purchased ADP Travel Services, Hounslow and Swinards Coaches, Ashford and operated them as Westbus UK.
The coach business of Armchair Passenger Transport, a bus and coach operation purchased by ComfortDelGro subsidiary Metroline in 2004, was amalgamated into Westbus UK in 2006.
Westbus UK, along with Westbus Australia, was purchased by ComfortDelGro Cabcharge in 2005. Westbus UK was reorganised under CityFleet Networks, and continues to operate independently from the Westbus in Australia (now defunct) till this day, despite bearing the latter's name, old logo and livery.
Taxi services
ComCab, also known as Computer Cab, operates taxi account, booking and dispatch services in London, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Liverpool, and operates a fleet of 6,300 radio taxis and private hire vehicles providing a service to local business and private customers. It was first established in 1974. CityFleet acquired Merseyside Radio Meter Cabs Ltd (better known as Merseycabs) in October 2008 and absorbed it into the Comcab business. In April 2018, CityFleet acquired Dial-a-cab, which is based in London. This would give a total fleet of 3000 taxis in the UK.
Comfort Executive offers executive car chauffeur services, as well as business transport. It was originally formed in 1974 as Flightlink International, and joined ComfortDelGro in 2006.
CityFleet also operates CityFleet Business.
References
External links
CityFleet Networks
Westbus UK
British subsidiaries of foreign companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20reunion%20films | This is a list of American made-for-television films and television specials which reunited the original cast members of a defunct prime time network television series.
Television reunion films
The following is a list of films reuniting the cast of a television series, reprising their original characters in a story set in that film's present day.
Television reunion specials
The following is a list of specials celebrating a classic television series (retrospective, cast reunion, reminiscence, behind-the-scenes, interview/clip show).
References
TV series reunion films and specials at IMDb
Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series Armstrong, Richard B. and Armstrong, Mary Willems.
Films based on television series
Television series reunion films
Television series reunion specials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20and%20Data%20Center%20Standard%20Form%20Factor | The Enterprise and Data Center Standard Form Factor or EDSFF, previously known as the Enterprise and Data Center SSD Form Factor, is a family of SSD form factors for use in data centers that is being developed by the Small Form Factor Technology Affiliate technical work group, which is itself under the organizational stewardship of the Storage Networking Industry Association.
As a family of form factors, it defines specifications for the mechanical dimensions and electrical interfaces devices should have, to ensure compatibility between disparate hardware manufacturers. The standard is meant to replace the M.2 and U.2 form factors for drives used in data centers.
EDSFF SSDs are made in six sizes: E1.L (Long) and E1.S (Short), E2.L and E2.S, and E3.L and E3.S.
Samsung's NGSFF (also known as M.3 or NF1) form factor competes with EDSFF.
See also
NVM Express
PCI Express
References
External links
Solid State Drive Form Factors on SNIA's website
Data centers
Computer-related introductions in 2017
Computer connectors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next%20Gen%20%28film%29 | Next Gen is a 2018 computer-animated science fiction action film that is based on the online manhua 7723 by Wang Nima (which was originally published in Baozou Manhua, which Wang founded and led), and is directed by Kevin R. Adams and Joe Ksander. The film stars the voices of John Krasinski, Charlyne Yi, Jason Sudeikis, Michael Peña, David Cross and Constance Wu. It tells the story of Mai Su, a lonely rebellious teenage girl living in a world where sentient robot technology is commonplace, and 7723, a top-secret weaponized robot, who, through a chance encounter, meet each other and form an unlikely bond that they must use to stop a vicious threat. The film was released on Netflix on September 7, 2018, and was produced almost exclusively using Blender.
Plot
A teenage girl named Mai lives with her mother Molly in Grainland. Her father Matthew left them when she was young, after which her mother started to depend on robots causing Mai to feel left out. Then Matthew died later on. One day, the two attend a product launch at IQ Robotics headquarters. Annoyed at her mother, Mai wanders off, stumbling into the secret lab of Dr. Tanner Rice, who has been working on an attack robot called 7723. Mai accidentally activates 7723, before getting apprehended by security and returned to her mother. At launch, Justin Pin, the CEO of IQ Robotics, reveals a new generation of Q-Bots to the public, but he secretly designed them to explode. 7723 leaves Rice's lab to find Mai, but is pursued by the city police. He starts to use his weapon systems, making the police forces respond with deadly force. He falls into the lowest levels of the city, damaging his memory core.
When Mai goes outside to check on her dog, Momo, she finds 7723 in her backyard. She initially tries to dismiss him, but after seeing his weapons system, she allows him to stay in the shed. With 7723, Mai confronts some school bullies, by destroying their Q-Bots. The two then embark on a montage of shenanigans throughout the city, but as 7723 accumulates more memories, he struggles to decide which to keep. When Mai confronts him about it, he reveals if he reaches full capacity, he will undergo a total system reset, losing all his memories in the process. Mai suggests deleting his core systems to make room, but he says he would lose functionality.
7723 becomes apprehensive about using his abilities under Mai's orders, and during one instance refuses to blast Mai's school bully leader, Greenwood, when she orders her hurt. This angers Mai so she proceeds to hit Greenwood herself with her bat, but stopping just before completing a swing after Greenwood begins to cry. 7723 subsequently deletes his weapon system to save his memories and prevent himself from hurting any more people, and promises to Mai to never let her down again, but is unknowingly seen by Molly's Q-Bot, allowing Dr. Rice to find him, and he goes to Mai's house to format 7723's memory and take him away. He explains that he built 7723 to pre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20knowledge%20base | A personal knowledge base (PKB) is an electronic tool used to express, capture, and later retrieve the personal knowledge of an individual. It differs from a traditional database in that it contains subjective material particular to the owner, that others may not agree with nor care about. Importantly, a PKB consists primarily of knowledge, rather than information; in other words, it is not a collection of documents or other sources an individual has encountered, but rather an expression of the distilled knowledge the owner has extracted from those sources or from elsewhere.
The term was mentioned as early as the 1980s, but the term came to prominence in the 2000s when it was described at length in publications by computer scientist Stephen Davies and colleagues, who compared PKBs on a number of different dimensions, the most important of which is the data model that each PKB uses to organize knowledge.
Data models
Davies and colleagues examined three aspects of the data models of PKBs:
their , which prescribes rules about how knowledge elements can be structured and interrelated (as a tree, graph, tree plus graph, spatially, categorically, as n-ary links, chronologically, or ZigZag);
their , or basic building blocks of information that a user creates and works with, and the level of granularity of those knowledge elements (such as word/concept, phrase/proposition, free text notes, links to information sources, or composite); and
their , which involves the level of formal semantics introduced into the data model (such as a type system and related schemas, keywords, attribute–value pairs, etc.).
Davies and colleagues also emphasized the principle of transclusion, "the ability to view the same knowledge element (not a copy) in multiple contexts", which they considered to be "pivotal" to an ideal PKB. They concluded, after reviewing many design goals, that the ideal PKB was still to come in the future.
Personal knowledge graph
In their publications on PKBs, Davies and colleagues discussed knowledge graphs as they were implemented in some software of the time. Later, other writers used the term personal knowledge graph (PKG) to refer to a PKB featuring a graph structure and graph visualization. However, the term is also used by software engineers to refer to the different subject of a knowledge graph a person, in contrast to a knowledge graph a person in a PKB.
Software architecture
Davies and colleagues also differentiated PKBs according to their software architecture: file-based, database-based, or client–server systems (including Internet-based systems accessed through desktop computers and/or handheld mobile devices).
History
Non-electronic personal knowledge bases have probably existed in some form for centuries: Leonardo da Vinci's journals and notes are a famous example of the use of notebooks. Commonplace books, , annotated private libraries, and card files (in German, ) of index cards and edge-notched cards are examples of fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-366 | In telecommunications, RS-366, later known as EIA-366, defines a standard for serial communications between computers and an auto dialer, which is used to dial telephones. It was intended to be used to automate the operation of modems. The standard uses the same DB25 connectors and electrical signalling standards of the well-known RS-232 standard, which RS-366 was designed to support. The CCITT had a matching standard, V.25.
The earliest modems were used in the SAGE system that automated the collection of radar data, digitized it, and sent it over modems on leased lines to the SAGE computers. Modems were soon being used in business roles, notably in the SABRE that was patterned on the SAGE system. In these roles, the connections were always to the same remote machine, so there was no need to dial the phone, only connect and disconnect.
There were some business cases for automated dialling, but these tended to be mission specific. One common example was for a bank's central computer to call out to branches to retrieve transactions, thus centralizing the phone costs at the computer site rather than each branch. As these were highly customized applications, this lent itself to the development of a variety of incompatible systems. RS-366 was an effort to standardize the communications with these dialler systems.
RS-366, unlike RS-232, was a partially parallel communication system. Although most of the standard used RS-232 serial-like signalling, the digits of the phone number were sent as a 4-bit binary number in parallel on pins 14 through 17, with 14 being the least significant digit. So to send the digit 9, pins 14 (1) and 17 (8) would be put to the "mark" state, whereas the digit 6 would mark pins 15 and 16.
With each digit, the host system data terminal equipment (DTE, typically a computer) would raise pin 2 to indicate the digit was ready for the dialler to read. When the dialler completed the read, it would raise pin 5 to indicate it was ready for another. The "digit" 10 represented a wait-for-dialtone, while 11 indicated the end of the number. Once the entire dialling string had been read to the dialler, the DTE would start dialling by raising pin 4.
While the RS-366 standard process was progressing, the Hayes Smartmodem was introduced. This combined the modem and autodialler in a single box and communicated with both using a single RS-232 cable. This eliminated the cost and complexity of needing two ports and devices. The need for RS-366 disappeared, but the standards process continued for a time and at least some products were introduced based on it. The standard was obsolete by the time the Telecommunications Industry Association took over the EIA efforts, and it was never referred to as TIA-366.
Pinouts
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting%20number | In mathematics and computer science, the sorting numbers are a sequence of numbers introduced in 1950 by Hugo Steinhaus for the analysis of comparison sort algorithms. These numbers give the worst-case number of comparisons used by both binary insertion sort and merge sort. However, there are other algorithms that use fewer comparisons.
Formula and examples
The th sorting number is given by the formula
where
The sequence of numbers given by this formula (starting with ) is
0, 1, 3, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41, ... .
The same sequence of numbers can also be obtained from the recurrence relation,
or closed form
It is an example of a 2-regular sequence.
Asymptotically, the value of the th sorting number fluctuates between approximately and depending on the ratio between and the nearest power of two.
Application to sorting
In 1950, Hugo Steinhaus observed that these numbers count the number of comparisons used by binary insertion sort, and conjectured (incorrectly) that they give the minimum number of comparisons needed to sort items using any comparison sort. The conjecture was disproved in 1959 by L. R. Ford Jr. and Selmer M. Johnson, who found a different sorting algorithm, the Ford–Johnson merge-insert sort, using fewer comparisons.
The same sequence of sorting numbers also gives the worst-case number of comparisons used by merge sort to sort items.
Other applications
The sorting numbers (shifted by one position) also give the sizes of the shortest possible superpatterns for the layered permutations.
References
Integer sequences
Comparison sorts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20M%20Sunraysia | Triple M Sunraysia (official callsign: 3RMR) is a commercial radio station owned and operated by Southern Cross Austereo as part of the Triple M network. The station is broadcast to the Sunraysia region located on the Victoria–New South Wales border from studios in Mildura.
The station commenced broadcasting in 1933 as 3MA, initially on the AM band at a frequency of 1360 kilohertz, before converting to the FM band as Sun FM on 20 November 1997. On 15 December 2016, the station was relaunched as Triple M.
Programming
Local programming is produced and broadcast from the station's Mildura studios from 6am–12pm weekdays. The station's local output consists of a three-hour breakfast show presented by Matt Jonsen, and a three-hour mornings show presented by Silco.
Networked programming originates from studios in Townsville, the Gold Coast, Melbourne and Sydney.
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External links
Mainstream rock radio stations in Australia
Radio stations established in 1933
Radio stations in Victoria (state)
Mildura
1933 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toon-A-Vision | Toon-A-Vision is a Canadian English language discretionary service television channel owned by Atlantic Digital Networks that launched on June 19, 2018. The channel broadcasts animated programming aimed at preschoolers and teenagers. Its name is a portmanteau of "cartoon" and "television".
History
Atlantic Digital Networks received Category B-exemption from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a television service called "Atlantic Cartoon" in 2014. The channel, now known as Toon-A-Vision, launched on Eastlink cable systems throughout Canada in high definition on June 19, 2018. It was developed in conjunction with Huminah Huminah Animation. On July 15, 2019, Atlantic Digital Networks requested the CRTC transfer the channel to a full license after surpassing the commission's subscriber threshold. Its license was approved on September 1, 2020.
The channel was added to Bell Satellite TV and Bell Fibe on December 5, 2019. Cogeco launched the channel on its platforms on April 22, 2020. The channel is expected to be launched on Shaw Direct in 2022.
Programming
Current programming
ABC Monsters
Albi the Snowman
Blue Fish Nursery Rhymes
Buzz Bumble
Chaotic
Chilly Beach
Chuck Chicken
Devilled Eggz
Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist
Dive, Olly, Dive
Doki
Dragamonz
Eddie is a Yeti
Future Card Buddyfight X
G2G: Got To Go!
Ghosts of Time
GoGo Dino Explorers
Hatchimals: Adventures in Hatchtopia
The Hive
I'm A Dinosaur
I.N.K. Invisible Network of Kids
Jack
Jar Dwellers SOS
Kagagi: The Raven
Kikoriki
Leon
Maddie's Do You Know?
Manon
Maple Shorts
Mia
Mofy
My Goldfish Is Evil
Oh Yuck!
Origanimals
Pet Alien
Pet Squad
Pin Code
Redakai
Ricky Sprocket: Showbiz Boy
Sindbad & the 7 Galaxies
Skyland
Smighties
Talking Tom and Friends
Tenkai Knights
The Fairytaler
Timeblazers
Tina and Tony
Toot the Tiny Tugboat
Wild Grinders
WonderBalls!
Yam Roll
Zo Zo Zombie
Reruns
The Adventures of Annie & Ben (September 2021)
Bat Pat (November 27, 2021)
Former programming
Aesop's Theater
Baby Genius
Best Ed
Bunny Ninja
Ever After High
Get Well Soon
Gisele and the Green Team
Hareport
The Haunting Hour: The Series
Horrid Henry
King Arthur's Disasters
Kipper
Little Princess
Magic Academy
Martha & Friends
Monster by Mistake
Monster High
Parallel Parker
PAW Patrol
Percy the Park Keeper
Pingu
Secret Millionaires Club
Skunk Fu!
Space POP
Thomas Edison's Secret Lab
Tom and the Slice of Bread with Strawberry Jam and Honey
Uncle Joe's Cartoon Playhouse
WrestleVille
Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal
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External links
English-language television stations in Canada
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Children's television networks in Canada
Companies based in Nova Scotia
Television channels and stations established in 2018
Anime television
HD-only channels
2018 establishments in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Druschel | Peter Druschel (born 22 April 1959 in Bad Reichenhall) is a German computer scientist and founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken.
Education and career
Druschel studied electrical engineering specializing on data technology at the Munich University of Applied Sciences and completed his studies as a graduate engineer. He graduated in 1994 from the University of Arizona under Larry L. Peterson. In the same year he became Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Rice University. In 2000 he became Associate Professor, followed in 2002 by a full professorship.
In August 2005 he started his work at Saarbrücken's Max Planck Institute for Software Systems as the founding director. Druschel specializes in distributed systems such as peer-to-peer networks and security and operating systems. Along with Ant Rowstron, Druschel developed the Pastry technique at Microsoft. In 2008 Druschel was elected a member of the Leopoldina. In the same year he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea.
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External links
1959 births
Living people
German computer scientists
People from Bad Reichenhall
University of Arizona alumni
Rice University faculty
Max Planck Institute directors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercism | Exercism is an online, open-source, free coding platform that offers code practice and mentorship on 66 different programming languages.
History
Software developer Katrina Owen created Exercism while she was teaching programming at Jumpstart Labs. The platform was developed as an internal tool to solve the problem of her own students not receiving feedback on the coding problems they were practicing. Katrina put the site publicly online and found that people were sharing it with their friends, practicing together and giving each other feedback. Within 12 months, the site had organically grown to see over 6,000 users had submitted code or feedback, and hundreds of volunteers contribute to the languages or tooling on the platform.
In July 2018, the site was relaunched with a new design and centred around a formal mentoring mode.
Product
The website differs from other coding platforms by requiring students to download exercises through a command line client, solve the code on their own computers then submit the solution for feedback, at which point they can also view other's solutions to the same problem.
Exercism has tracks for 66 different programming languages. including ABAP, C, C#, C++, CoffeeScript, Elm, Erlang, F#, Go, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Kotlin, Objective-C, PHP, Python, Raku, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift and Delphi.
In 2023, the site launched a "12 in 23" challenge for users to learn the basics of 12 different languages - one per month in 2023.
Open source
The Exercism codebase is open source.
In April 2016, it consisted of 50 repositories including website code, API code, command-line code and, most of all, over 40 stand-alone repositories for different language tracks.
Exercism has 3,500 contributors, now maintaining 340 repositories, and 11,500 mentors.
References
Open-source cloud applications
Free software
Online services
Virtual learning environments
Open educational resources |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter%20and%20Tear%20Gas | Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest is a 2017 non-fiction book written by Zeynep Tufekci about protest in the age of the internet, social networks, and social media. Tufekci describes the internet as a new type of digital public sphere and compares protest movements throughout history to modern movements that used the internet. The book is freely available under a Creative Commons license.
Overview
Tufekci stresses throughout that online spaces and social media are an important public sphere and not simply virtual extensions of people's lives. She asserts that pre- and post-internet movements cannot be judged by the same criteria. The internet has given protesters the power to gather and scale quickly: the 1963 March on Washington drew hundreds of thousands and was the result of many months of planning in a multi-year effort, while massive crowds during the Egyptian revolution of 2011 gathered in Tahrir Square in a few days. She describes a movement's "capacity" and its "signal". The capacity is its ability to (for example) command a narrative, to disrupt the status quo, or to effect legislative or structural change. Protests are a "signal" of such capacities. The Civil rights movement built such capacities and achieved significant change, while protests such as Occupy Wall Street gathered large crowds but fizzled. She describes "tactical freeze", in which movements are unable to respond to inevitable government countermeasures. Governments may also employ methods of censorship like manipulating attention by flooding social media with irrelevant or misleading information, as with China's 50 Cent Army, or pushing activists towards self-censorship through online harassment.
Reception
Twitter and Tear Gas was named as one of 50 notable works of nonfiction by The Washington Post. A review from the newspaper praised the book for its transformative view of the role of digital technology in activist causes. Another review described the book as essential documentation of how social media plays a role in protests.
References
External links
Official website
2017 non-fiction books
Yale University Press books
Books about the Internet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yael%20Tauman%20Kalai | Yael Tauman Kalai is a cryptographer and theoretical computer scientist who works as a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and as an adjunct professor at MIT in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Education and career
Kalai graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1997. She worked with Adi Shamir at the Weizmann Institute of Science, earning a master's degree there in 2001, and then moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she completed her PhD in 2006 with Shafi Goldwasser as her doctoral advisor. She did postdoctoral study at Microsoft Research and the Weizmann Institute before becoming a faculty member at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She took a permanent position at Microsoft Research in 2008. She serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM).
Contributions
Kalai is known for co-inventing ring signatures, which has become a key component of numerous systems such as Cryptonote and Monero (cryptocurrency). Subsequently, together with her advisor Shafi Goldwasser, she demonstrated an insecurity in the widely used Fiat–Shamir heuristic. Her work on delegating computation has applications to cloud computing.
Recognition
Kalai was an invited speaker on mathematical aspects of computer science at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.
Her master's thesis introducing ring signatures won an outstanding master's thesis award and MIT PhD dissertation was awarded the George M. Sprowls Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Computer Science.
She was co-chair of the Theory of Cryptography Conference in 2017.
She was awarded the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing "for breakthroughs in verifiable delegation of computation and fundamental contributions to cryptography".
Personal
Kalai is the daughter of game theorist Yair Tauman. Her husband, Adam Tauman Kalai, also works at Microsoft Research.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American cryptographers
American computer scientists
Israeli cryptographers
Israeli computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Weizmann Institute of Science alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Georgia Tech faculty
American women academics
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Mary%27s%20Church%2C%20Lutterworth | St Mary's Church is the Church of England parish church of the town of Lutterworth, Leicestershire. It is listed at Grade I and is a member of the Major Churches Network.
The church building is 13th-century, with 14th- and 15th-century alterations. The church still contains some 15th-century wall paintings including a large Doom over the chancel arch, with figures rising out of tombs and large seated Christ in majesty surrounded by angels.
The spire on the church was blown down in 1703 and rebuilt in 1761. Sir George Gilbert Scott restored the building in 1866–1869.
The translator John Wycliffe was rector of the church between 1374 and 1384. It was here that he is traditionally believed to have produced the first translation of the Bible from Latin into English. His translation of the Bible into English started the Lollard movement. The Irish statesman Robert le Poer was parish priest here c.1318.
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External links
Lutterworth Church
Church of England church buildings in Leicestershire
St Mary's Church
13th-century church buildings in England
Lutterworth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge-insertion%20sort | In computer science, merge-insertion sort or the Ford–Johnson algorithm is a comparison sorting algorithm published in 1959 by L. R. Ford Jr. and Selmer M. Johnson. It uses fewer comparisons in the worst case than the best previously known algorithms, binary insertion sort and merge sort, and for 20 years it was the sorting algorithm with the fewest known comparisons. Although not of practical significance, it remains of theoretical interest in connection with the problem of sorting with a minimum number of comparisons. The same algorithm may have also been independently discovered by Stanisław Trybuła and Czen Ping.
Algorithm
Merge-insertion sort performs the following steps, on an input of elements:
Group the elements of into pairs of elements, arbitrarily, leaving one element unpaired if there is an odd number of elements.
Perform comparisons, one per pair, to determine the larger of the two elements in each pair.
Recursively sort the larger elements from each pair, creating a sorted sequence of of the input elements, in ascending order.
Insert at the start of the element that was paired with the first and smallest element of .
Insert the remaining elements of into , one at a time, with a specially chosen insertion ordering described below. Use binary search in subsequences of (as described below) to determine the position at which each element should be inserted.
The algorithm is designed to take advantage of the fact that the binary searches used to insert elements into are most efficient (from the point of view of worst case analysis) when the length of the subsequence that is searched is one less than a power of two. This is because, for those lengths, all outcomes of the search use the same number of comparisons as each other. To choose an insertion ordering that produces these lengths, consider the sorted sequence after step 4 of the outline above (before inserting the remaining elements),
and let denote the th element of this sorted sequence. Thus,
where each element with is paired with an element that has not yet been inserted. (There are no elements or because and were paired with each other.) If is odd, the remaining unpaired element should also be numbered as with larger than the indexes of the paired elements.
Then, the final step of the outline above can be expanded into the following steps:
Partition the uninserted elements into groups with contiguous indexes. There are two elements and in the first group, and the sums of sizes of every two adjacent groups form a sequence of powers of two. Thus, the sizes of groups are: 2, 2, 6, 10, 22, 42, ...
Order the uninserted elements by their groups (smaller indexes to larger indexes), but within each group order them from larger indexes to smaller indexes. Thus, the ordering becomes
Use this ordering to insert the elements into . For each element , use a binary search from the start of up to but not including to determine where to insert .
Analysis
Le |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasik%20inscription%20of%20Ushavadata | The Nasik inscription of Ushavadata is an inscription made in the Nasik Caves by Ushavadata, a son-in-law of the Western Satraps ruler Nahapana, in the years circa 120 CE. It is the earliest known instance of the usage of Sanskrit, although a rather hybrid form, in western India. It also documents the Indian tradition of dana (charity) to Brahmins, Buddhists and of building infrastructure to serve pilgrims and the general public by the 2nd-century CE.
Characteristics
The inscription is classified as "Inscription No.10" of the Nasik Caves. It is located on the front porch of Cave No.10, also called the "Nahapana Vihara". It is several meters in length.
Usage of hybrid Sanskrit
Altogether, the caves contain six inscriptions of the family of Nahapana, but the Ushavadata inscription is particularly important in that it is the earliest known instance of the usage of Sanskrit, although a rather hybrid form, in western India. Most of the other inscriptions made by the Western Satraps were in Prakrit, using the Brahmi script.
In what has been described as "the great linguistical paradox of India", Sanskrit inscriptions first appeared much later than Prakrit inscriptions, although Prakrit is considered a descendant of the Sanskrit language. This is because Prakrit, in its multiple variants, had been favoured since the time of the influential Edicts of Ashoka (circa 250 BCE). Besides a few examples from the 1st century BCE, most of the early Sanskrit inscriptions date to the time of the Indo-Scythian rulers, either the Northern Satraps around Mathura for the earliest ones, or, slightly later, the closely related Western Satraps in western and central India. It is thought that these Indo-Scythian rulers became promoters of Sanskrit as a way to show their attachment to Indian culture: according to Salomon "their motivation in promoting Sanskrit was presumably a desire to establish themselves as legitimate Indian or at least Indianized rulers and to curry the favor of the educated Brahmanical elite".
In western India, the first known inscription in Sanskrit appears to have been made by Ushavadata, son-in-law of the Western Satrap ruler Nahapana, at the front of Cave n°10 in the Nasik Caves. The inscription dates to the early 2nd century CE and has hybrid features. It was followed by the Junagadh rock inscription, inscribed by Rudradaman I circa 150 CE, is "the first long inscription recorded entirely in more or less standard Sanskrit". Sanskrit inscriptions by the Western Satraps are not found for about two hundred years after the Rudradaman reign, but it is important because its style is the prototype of the eulogy-style Sanskrit inscriptions found in the Gupta Empire era. These inscriptions are all in the Brahmi script.
Dedication of the cave to Buddhists
The inscription reveals that Kshatrapa Nahapana’s son-in-law and Dinika's son- Ushavadata built cave No.10 for Buddhist monks and donated 3000 gold coins for this cave as well as for the food and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20Deal%20%28TV%20series%29 | Square Deal is a British sitcom created by Richard Ommanney which ran for two series between 3 September 1988 and 13 October 1989 on the ITV network. The series starring Lise-Ann McLaughlin and Tim Bentinck as Nigel and Emma Barrington, a yuppie couple whose apparently comfortable lifestyle is brusquely shaken by the arrival on the scene of Sean, an incurable and impoverished young romantic. It was produced by London Weekend Television.
Sean Hooper (Brett Fancy) is a determined dreamer who has set himself until his next birthday – eight weeks hence – to make a success of his life; he then bumps into Emma – literally, they have an accident from which he ends up in plaster – and they agree to go into business together, buying a café/sandwich bar. The enterprise will benefit from a perfect blend of their talents: her business knowledge and his acumen as a sandwich-maker – hitherto, he has been selling them to a market stall to support his career as a writer.
With Sean on the scene, Nigel and Emma's relationship rapidly deteriorates, and a love triangle emerges, first in Nigel's mind and then in reality, as Emma realises that, for all his quirks, Sean is more fun to be with than her husband. An estate agent with a cunning mind, Nigel proceeds to wreck his wife's café plans by gazumping her, and talk of a divorce is soon in the air. Later (in the second series) Sean turns his attentions to rock singing, becoming a fledgling star, while Nigel becomes Sean's landlord and develops an interest in his new neighbour, Geraldine (Georgina Melville).
Cast
Lise-Ann McLaughlin – Emma Barrington
Tim Bentinck – Nigel Barrington
Brett Fancy – Sean Hooper
Angus Barnett – Alan
Jeremy Sinden – Max Grout
Jo McEvoy – Sally
Beth Porter – Hannah (series 1)
Frank Ellis – Brian (series 2)
Georgina Melville – Geraldine Gunter-Forbes (series 2)
Anthony Daniels – Julian Pickford
Episode list
Series 1
Series 2
Reception
In a positive review, James Green wrote in The Stage and Television Today, "On the casting side the best thing is the impossibly pretty Lise-Ann McLaughlin as the fore-mentioned wife. How Timothy Bentinck, as her estate-agent husband can act the lord and master in these times of femine independence is criminal. She not only looks surperb but is expected to work at the do-it-yourself chores to put a few more thousands on the home." The historian Mark Lewisohn called the show "modestly successful, if flawed".
References
External links
Square Deal at the Phill.co.uk Comedy Guide
1988 British television series debuts
1989 British television series endings
1980s British sitcoms
English-language television shows
ITV sitcoms
London Weekend Television shows
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows set in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality%20computing | Personality computing is a research field related to artificial intelligence and personality psychology that studies personality by means of computational techniques from different sources, including text, multimedia and social networks.
Overview
Personality computing addresses three main problems involving personality: automatic personality recognition, perception and synthesis. Automatic personality recognition is the inference of personality type of target individuals from their digital footprint, automatic personality perception is the inference of the personality attributed by an observer to a target individual based on some observable behavior, and automatic personality synthesis is the generation of the style or behaviour of artificial personalities in Avatars and virtual agents.
Self-assessed personality tests or observer ratings are always exploited as the ground truth for testing and validating the performance of artificial intelligence algorithms for the automatic prediction of personality types. There is a wide variety of personality tests, such as the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) or the MMPI, but the most used are tests based on the Five Factor Model such as the Revised NEO Personality Inventory.
Personality computing can be considered as an extension or complement of Affective Computing, where the former focuses on personality traits and the latter on affective states. A further extension of the two fields is Character Computing which combines various character states and traits including but not limited to personality and affect.
History
Personality computing begun around 2005 with few pioneering research works in personality recognition showing that personality traits could be inferred with reasonable accuracy from text, such as blogs, self-presentations, and email addresses. In 2008, the concept of "portable personality" for the distributed management of personality profiles has been developed.
Few years later begun the research in personality recognition and perception from multimodal and social signals, such as recorded meetings and voice calls.
In the 2010s the research focussed mainly on personality recognition and perception from social media, in particular from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. In the same years Automatic personality synthesis helped improving the coherence of simulated behavior in virtual agents.
Scientific works demonstrated the validity of Personality Computing from different digital footprints, in particular from user preferences such as Facebook page likes and showed that machines can recognize personality better than humans
Applications
Personality computing techniques, in particular personality recognition and perception, have applications in Social media marketing, where they can help reducing the cost of advertising campaigns through psychological targeting
References
Artificial intelligence
Interdisciplinary branches of psychology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee%20Van%20Wynsberghe | Aimee van Wynsberghe is Alexander von Humboldt professor for "Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence" at the University of Bonn, Germany. As founder of the Bonn Sustainable AI Lab and director of the Institute for Science and Ethics, Aimee van Wynsberghe hosts every two years the Bonn Sustainable AI Conference.
Education and career
Originally from London, Ontario, she received her bachelor's degree in cell biology from the University of Western Ontario, after which she obtained dual master's degrees in applied ethics and bioethics from KU Leuven in Belgium and the European Union's Erasmus Mundus program. She received her PhD from the University of Twente in 2012; her dissertation involved the creation of an ethical framework for the use of care robots in the medical field and was nominated for the Georges Giralt Award for best PhD thesis in Robotics.
Van Wynsberghe has been working in the field of robotics since 2004, beginning her career as a research assistant at CSTAR (Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advance Robotics). From 2014 to 2017 she was an assistant professor at the University of Twente, where her work focused on robot ethics, before serving as an associate professor in ethics and technology at Delft University of Technology. She was the first woman to be awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for "Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence" in 2020 and moved to Bonn, Germany to take on the directorship of Bonn University's Institute of Science and Ethics and set up the Bonn Sustainable AI Lab
In 2015, van Wynsberghe and Noel Sharkey established the Foundation for Responsible Robotics (FRR), a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization that advocates for the ethical design and production of robots. In founding the FRR, van Wynsberghe and Sharkey cited the urgent need for a greater level of accountability and attention to ethics in the design of robots, especially those that complete jobs through automation. She currently serves as the president of the foundation, organizing multi-stakeholder workshops; writing and disseminating consultation documents and reports; establishing public-private partnerships; and addressing legislative bodies within the European Union.
Van Wynsberghe is also a member of multiple organizations focusing on the ethics of technology. She has been appointed to the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI HLG) and currently serves on the board of numerous NGOs, including the Institute for Accountability in the Digital Age and the Netherlands Alliance for AI (ALLAI Netherlands). She also serves on the advisory board of the AI & Intelligent Automation Network.
Academic contributions
According to Google Scholar, van Wynsberghe's work has been cited over 1200 times and currently holds an h-index of 17. She is the author of the 2016 book Healthcare Robots: Ethics, Design and Implementation, which addresses the current and future role of robots in the healthca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N5%20highway%20%28Philippines%29 | National Route 5 (N5) forms part of the Philippine highway network. It runs through the province of Capiz to the province of Iloilo, both in the island of Panay. It is the only national primary route in Panay.
Route description
Roxas to Iloilo City
Iloilo–Capiz Road
N5 covers the section of Iloilo–Capiz Road from the Roxas City Fountain roundabout in Roxas City, Capiz to its southern terminus at Iloilo–Antique Road (locally known as General Luna Street) in Iloilo City.
Jaro Spur Road
N5 covers Jaro Spur Road (Washington Street), which carries northbound traffic from Jaro Plaza to Cubay-Balabago Road in Iloilo City, as the Iloilo–Capiz Road carries southbound traffic.
Branch in Iloilo City
N5's section that branches off from the old route of Iloilo–Capiz Road at Jaro Plaza covers Mandurriao-Jaro Road (EI98 Street) and the southern section of Sen. Benigno S. Aquino Jr. Avenue (Diversion Road). Just like the older route, it terminates at the Iloilo–Antique Road.
References
Roads in Capiz
Roads in Iloilo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N6%20highway | National Route 6 (N6) is a major primary national route that forms part of the Philippine highway network in the provinces of Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental.
History
Route description
Bacolod to Kabankalan
The route starts at the junction of N7 (Bacolod South Road / Araneta Avenue) and N69 (Alijis Road / Bacolod–San Carlos Road) in Bacolod as Bacolod South Road. It continues N7, which terminates in Bacolod.
In Bago, the road then turns away from the poblacion and becomes also known as Bacolod South By-Pass Road and locally as R.M. Salas Drive. It then regains the Bacolod South Road name shortly after crossing the Bago River. It continues its course along the western coast of Negros Occidental up to Kabankalan, wherein from barangay Binicuil it is locally known as Guanzon Street.
Kabankalan to Bais
In Kabankalan poblacion, the route turns southeast as Bais–Kabankalan Road, which is locally known in the city as Aquiles-Zayco Avenue, as Bacolod South Road continues from the junction as N712. Traversing the mountain range of Negros Island, it then enters Negros Oriental at Mabinay, where the kilometer count changes because of the separate kilometer count among the two provinces. The road finally reaches the southern terminus at N7 (Dumaguete North Road) in Bais.
References
Roads in Negros Occidental
Roads in Negros Oriental |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashbacks%20%28EP%29 | Flashbacks EP is the first extended play by Romanian Pop duo Contemplate. It was released worldwide on 6 April 2018.
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from allmusic data of Flashbacks.
Contemplate – all instruments, production ; programming
Mihai Hotiu – Piano
Larisa Tămaș – Violin
Rebecca Pomeranz – Lyrics Assistant
References
2018 EPs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20driven%20marketing | Data-driven marketing is a process used by marketers to gain insights and identify trends about consumers and how they behave — what they buy, the effectiveness of ads, and how they browse. Modern solutions rely on big data strategies and collect information about consumer interactions and engagements to generate predictions about future behaviors. This kind of analysis involves understanding the data that is already present, the data that can be acquired, and how to organize, analyze, and apply that data to better marketing efforts. The intended goal is generally to enhance and personalize the customer experience. The market research allows for a comprehensive study of preferences.
History of data driven marketing
Some marketing decisions have always been made on the basis of data, defined in the general sense as information. Audience targeting and segmentation strategies provide many examples. Since 1950, the Nielsen ratings have provided information to media buyers about television program audiences. Business-to-business marketers often target advertising to specialized trade publications and their digital channels.
Data driven marketing in the contemporary sense can be traced back to the 1980s and the emergence of database marketing, which increased the ease of personalizing customer communications. In 1993, WebTrends released one of the first web analytics products when only a few hundred websites existed. In the twenty-first century, social media and mobile technology have contributed to an explosion in the amount of data and its availability. Today, marketers use tools such as:
Google Analytics
Customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation platforms
Social media analytics
Pay-per-click (PPC) and search engine marketing (SEM) analytics
Heat maps or web optimization tools (A/B testing data).
Types of data driven marketing
The universe of data driven marketing is vast, but there are essentially two types of data used in marketing: contact information and performance metrics. Capturing contact information allows marketers to track potential customers and target them through emails, paid social, other digital tactics, and even potentially phone calls or direct mail, such as catalogs. Tracking of performance metrics, such as engagement, clicks, and page views enables marketers to improve and refine marketing activities to more effectively reach high-value prospects.
Phases
Data collection - This phase ensures customer/consumer data is collected from various source systems to create a 'Complete Customer Profile'
Data activation - This phase focuses on 'personalized marketing'. Based on the data collected, marketing strategy can be planned and focused. Activation can be across multiple channels (email marketing, SMS marketing, social marketing, digital ads etc.). Marketers can target their audience with relevant messaging that can be personalized - i.e.., different communication based on phase of customer life cyc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODK%20%28software%29 | ODK is an open-source mobile data collection platform. It enables users to fill out forms offline and send form data to a server when a connection is found. Once on the server, the data can be viewed, downloaded, and acted upon.
ODK is primarily used by organizations working in humanitarian aid and global development. Notable users include World Health Organization, International Red Cross and Red Crescent, and Carter Center. ODK has been recognized by the Digital Public Goods Alliance as a digital public good.
History
ODK (formerly called Open Data Kit) was founded in 2008 by Gaetano Borriello, Yaw Anokwa, Waylon Brunette, and Carl Hartung. It was designed to be an extensible, open-source suite to build information services for developing regions.
References
External links
ODK website
GIS software
Free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel%20Federation | Pixel Federation, Ltd. is a Slovak game developer and publisher focusing on mobile and social networking platforms. It was founded in 2007 with headquarters in Bratislava, Slovakia. Notable titles they have published include Diggy's Adventure, Seaport, Train Station, and Emporea.
With the success of TrainStation in 2012, Pixel Federation became one of the top 20 Facebook game-developing studios in the EMEA region. In 2017, it was recognized as one of the fastest growing tech startup in Central and Eastern Europe. The company has over 300 employees and has earned more than €50,900,000 in revenues.
Games
References
External links
Official Website
Video game development companies
Video game companies of Slovakia
Video game companies established in 2007
Slovakian companies established in 2007
Companies based in Bratislava |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum%20News | Hum News is one of Pakistan's 24-hour Urdu news channel. Based in Islamabad, the channel is a business unit of Hum Television Network (HNL), her Other sister channels belonging to Network are Hum TV, Hum Masala and Hum Sitaray.
The transmission of the channel started on 11 May 2018. Hum News has bureaus in five major cities of Pakistan – Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Quetta, and Peshawar with reporters in every major urban center of Pakistan. Arrangements with special correspondents enable Hum News to cover stories from major cities of the world.
Footprint
Hum News is available on Satellite PakSat-1R at 38.0 Degree and coordinates are, Downlink Frequency: 3793 MHz, Symbol Rate: 4444Ksym/s, FEC: 3/4, Polarity: Vertical. Hum News is available on these parameters in Pakistan and Middle East.
Staff
Key staff members of Hum News are
President: Sultana Siddiqui
CEO: Duraid Qureshi
Head of Programming: Akhtar V Azeem
Director News: Muhammad Rehan Ahmed
Senior Producer :Hammad Hassan
Anchors
Program ‘Pakistan Tonight’: Syed Samar Abbas
Program ‘Newsline’: Maria Zulfiqar
Program ‘Pakistan Ka Sawal’: Saad ul Hasan
Program ‘Khabar aur Tajzia’: Muzammil Suharwardi
Program ‘Power Politicals’: Adil Abbasi
Programs
Hum News’ current weekday schedule consists mostly of rolling news programming during daytime hours, followed by in-depth news, informative and analysis based programs during the evening and prime time hours.
Being one of the youngest News channel in Pakistan, Hum News focuses on a younger demographic. Its bulletins boast highest number of news stories on sports, entertainment, women affairs, youth issues and climate change. Hum News also carries bell to bell coverage of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) 5 days a week.
Hum News was the first channel to broadcast First Lady Bushra Bibi’s interview, besides that Hum News has done programs with the President Arif Alvi, Prime Minister Imran Khan, Governors and Chief Ministers of Provinces and several Federal Ministers. Hum News has a very versatile programming schedule which includes a variety of infotainment, political, religious and social shows.
Subah Say Agay: is a morning show, hosted by Ovais Mangalwala and Shiffa Yousafzai. This program airs five times a week from Monday to Friday from 10 AM to 12 PM (PST). This is an infotainment show consisting of different segments for all age groups.
Pakistan Ka Sawal: Hum News flagship prime time show Pakistan Ka Sawal is hosted by Saad ul Hassan. This program airs on Friday and Saturday at 7 PM (PST). This show is based on lead stories of the day and he issue/ topic is discussed with related guests.
Hum Awaz: A Roadshow from Karachi highlighting the social and environmental issues and its remedies, this show is hosted by Zunaib Khanzada. You can watch it every Sunday at 7 PM (PST).
Pakistan Tonight: Another Prime Time talk-show of Hum News, hosted by Syed Samar Abbas. This program airs on weekends from Friday to Sunday at 8 PM (PST |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin%20Li%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Jin Li (; born 1971) is a Chinese computer scientist. He joined Microsoft Research in 1999, as one of the founding member of Microsoft Research Asia. He is currently a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research, Redmond.
Life and work
Li was born in Shanghai, China.
In 1984, he demoed computer programs to Deng Xiaoping, then the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China. This iconic event led to the quote "计算机的普及要从娃娃抓起" (Computer education should start from children). This event and quote was widely reported in China, often in the context of teaching computer programming to children, and/or developing computer industry in China.
In 1987, Li matriculated at Tsinghua University at the age of 16. He got PhD in 1994. He was considered one of the youngest PhDs in China in the 20th century.
Li joined Integrated Media Systems Center of University of Southern California in 1994 as an Associate Researcher. In 1996, he joined Sharp Laboratories of America. In 1999, he joined Microsoft Research Asia as one of its founding member
, and won a Microsoft Gold Star award for his contribution in founding the lab. He returned to Microsoft Research Redmond in 2001, where he served as the Partner Research Manager for the Cloud Computing and Storage group.
Li made extensive contribution to Multimedia compression standard (JPEG 2000, MPEG-4, HEVC), on topics of optimized scalable coding,
visual optimization in scalable coding,
coding of object of non-rectangular shape,
,
region-of-interest interactive image browsing,
scalable audio coding, and
bi-directional motion compensation
He was a pioneer in P2P video delivery
.
His work on the Local Reconstruction Code (LRC) has shipped in Azure Storage, which has led to hundreds of millions dollars of saving to Microsoft per annum
,
a Best Paper Award at USENIX ATC 2012
,
and a Microsoft TCN Storage Technical Achievement Award. LRC has also been used in Storage Space (shipped in Windows & Windows Server)
.
His work on Data Deduplication in Windows Server 2012 is among the top 3 File Server features introduced
.
It has received rave press reviews
.
His work to exploit the benefit of SSD for high performance storage applications has led to "FlashStore" and SkimpyStash
, the former
has been shipped in Bing/AdCenter for cloud object storage, the latter
has been incorporated into BW-Tree, which is shipping in SQL Server 2014 (Hekaton) and Azure DocumentDB.
He developed RemoteFX for WAN,
, which provides a fast and fluid user experience in a remote session for Windows running over any WAN and wireless networks.
Li is the leader of the open source project Prajna
and DL Workspace
. Prajna is an Apache Spark-like distributed computational platform on .Net.
DL Workspace
is an open sourced toolkit that empower AI scientists to quickly spin up a cloud AI infrastructure (either in public cloud, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Engine, or in an on-perm cluster ) to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfoQ | Information quality (InfoQ) is the potential of a data set to achieve a specific (scientific or practical) goal using a given empirical analysis method.
Definition
Formally, the definition is InfoQ = U(X,f|g) where X is the data, f the analysis method, g the goal and U the utility function. InfoQ is different from data quality and analysis quality, but is dependent on these components and on the relationship between them.
InfoQ has been applied in a wide range of domains like healthcare, customer surveys, data science programs, advanced manufacturing and Bayesian network applications.
Kenett and Shmueli (2014) proposed eight dimensions to help assess InfoQ and various methods for increasing InfoQ: Data resolution, Data structure, Data integration, Temporal relevance, Chronology of data and goal, Generalization, Operationalization, Communication.
References
Data
Research methods
Statistical analysis
Information |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managing%20by%20wire | Managing by wire is a management strategy in which managers rely on their company's "information representation" generated by computers such as databases and software instead of on detailed commands.
It was presented by Stephan H. Haeckel and Richard L. Nolan in a 1993 Harvard Business Review article. The authors chose the term "managing by wire" as an analogue to the fly-by-wire concept for jets. SAP SE, Aetna, Mrs. Fields Cookies, and Brooklyn Union Gas have done "managing by wire".
History
The concept was presented in an article titled "Managing by Wire" in the September–October 1993 issue of Harvard Business Review by Stephan H. Haeckel and Richard L. Nolan. When they wrote the article, Haeckel was the director of strategic studies at IBM's Advanced Business Institute and Nolan was a professor at the Harvard Business School. In his 2003 book The New Ruthless Economy, Simon Head called the article "an important milestone in the intellectual gestation of the corporate panopticon".
Concept
The authors selected "Managing by Wire" as the title because readers would relate to the comforting, modern scene in the cockpit of an aviator carefully flying the jet to its destination. So as an analogue to "managing by wire", the authors presented a fly-by-wire concept for jets. According to fly-by-wire, a pilot must focus on general flight parameters while information technologies control the plane and reacts to changing environment. Instead of depending on their senses as they did in the past, pilots now are "flying by wire" by depending on the plane's "informational representation" generated by a computer. Likewise, when managers are "managing by wire", they are relying on their company's "informational representation", which includes "expert systems, databases, software objects, and other technical components". Rather than specifying step-by-step commands, managers would oversee their group through telling the software what their objectives are. The ability of a firm to "manage by wire" is based on how large and complicated its operations are.
Industry applications
In their 2004 book, Managing Customer Relationships, Don Peppers and Martha Rogers cited several companies and organizations as having successfully used the "managing by wire" strategy in a limited fashion. For example, Mrs. Fields Cookies is using a tiny number of employees in rural Utah to manage 800 stores, some of which are owned by the company and some of which are franchised. They have the ability to do this through the use of computer systems that reproduce how founder Debbi Fields oversaw her flagship Palo Alto, California, store. In another example, to be able to resolve inquiries from their large number of customers in a speedy and efficient fashion, Brooklyn Union Gas "codified" a significant part of its customer service work such as the reading of meters and the collecting of due payments. Aetna, an insurance company, made related changes in the hopes of enabling their account |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer%20data | Customer data or consumer data refers to all personal, behavioural, and demographic data that is collected by marketing companies and departments from their customer base. To some extent, data collection from customers intrudes into customer privacy, the exact limits to the type and amount of data collected need to be regulated. The data collected is processed in customer analytics. The data collection is thus aimed at insights into customer behaviour (buying decisions, etc.) and, eventually, profit maximization by consolidation and expansion of the customer base.
In the internet age, a prominent method for collecting customer data is through explicit online surveys, but also through concealed methods like measurement of click-through and abandonment rates.
Customer data is gathered for customer research, especially customer satisfaction research and purportedly serves to increase overall customer satisfaction.
Levels of information
A possible classification of business customer information was proposed by Minna J. Rollins, who distinguished the levels a) market b) organizational c) business unit, and d) individual. For private consumers, different levels are a) personal identifying data b) psychographics data, c) transactional (buying) data, d) demographic, and e) financial data. While the individual data level for business customers has some overlap with the data gathered from individual consumers, the other business-related levels roughly correspond to the demographic part of individual customers.
See also
Audience measurement
Customer data management
Customer data integration
Customer data platform
Customer intelligence
Market research
References
Customer relationship management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZGV | DZGV (99.9 FM), broadcasting as GV 99.9, is a radio station owned and operated by GV Radios Network Corporation, a subsidiary of Apollo Broadcast Investors. The station's studio and transmitter are located at #53 Evangelista St., Batangas City. It operates daily from 5am to 10pm.
GV 99.9 formerly had a sister station based in Sto. Tomas with the call letters DWEG. Initially known as Smile 89.5, it first signed on in 2010 to serve the extreme northern Batangas and western Laguna market. In March 2018, it was converted into a relay of GV 99.9, thus carrying the branding GV Southern Luzon. It went off the air in late 2018 due to cost-cutting measures and its transmitter being disabled by Tropical Storm Usman.
References
Radio stations in Batangas
Radio stations established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Action%20Network | The Action Network is a sports media company featuring news and analysis focused on sports betting in the United States.
History
The company was founded by The Chernin Group in October 2017, through the acquisition and roll-up of three companies: Sports Insights, FantasyLabs and the SportsAction mobile app.
In October 2017, Chad Millman joined the company as chief content officer. Millman was previously editor-in-chief for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com.
In November 2018, the company announced the appointment of Patrick Keane as CEO. Keane was a former board member at Bleacher Report, and was an original seed stage investor in The Action Network.
In July 2019, Ari Borod joined the company as Chief Commercial Officer. Borod formerly was Vice President of Fantasy Sports and Legal & Business Affairs at FanDuel.
On October 22, 2019, MLB umpire Joe West filed a defamation lawsuit in New York against Action Network and former MLB player Paul Lo Duca over comments Lo Duca made on a podcast carried by the network in April 2019, recalling his Mets teammate Billy Wagner telling him in 2006-07, "Joe loves antique cars so every time he comes into town I lend him my ’57 Chevy so he can drive it around so then he opens up the strike zone for me." In the complaint West denies this and says he has suffered unspecified damages as a result of Lo Duca's comments.
On May 3, 2021, the company announced it had been acquired by the sports betting media group Better Collective for $240 million.
Content
The Action Network has a content partnership with ESPN, producing a daily show streaming on the ESPN+ platform called I'll Take That Bet.
On August 27, 2018, the company announced a partnership with Cadence13 to launch a podcast network dedicated to sports gambling.
Sports business analyst, Darren Rovell, joined the company on November 28, 2018. Rovell previously worked for ESPN and CNBC.
On April 25, 2019, the company announced a partnership with SiriusXM to launch a daily show on the Fantasy Sports Radio channel that will deliver a mix of sports betting insights and fantasy sports analysis.
In January 2022, the company began a partnership with the New York Post. Post Chief Operating Officer Brad Elders said "We are looking forward to bringing better sports betting content and utility to the best sports fans to continue our commitment to deliver unrivaled sports coverage. Better Collective’s innovative tools and informative content will provide our fans with the best resources to navigate sports betting with ease."
In August 2022, Action Network began a two-year media partnership deal with The Philadelphia Inquirer to deliver sports betting content to visitors of the paper's website. In the announcement, Inquirer publisher and CEO Elizabeth H. Hughes said "Philadelphia has some of the most passionate and knowledgeable sports fans in the country and this business partnership with Better Collective through Action Network allows us to offer quality content to re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Love%20Classics | K-Love Classics was a Christian classic hits radio network owned by Educational Media Foundation (EMF) and was carried over FM stations, translators, and HD subchannels in the United States. Such stations include WAIW 88.1 in Wheaton, Illinois. The network was one of the formats produced by EMF. Airing Christian music from the 1980s, 1990s, and early in the decade of the 2000s, the K-Love Classics format debuted in June 2018 as an internet-only station but quickly moved to terrestrial radio on FM and HD Radio subchannels after a large response to the new format.
On November 2, 2020, K-Love Classics was discontinued, and was subsequently replaced by new decade-specific networks devoted to the 1990s and 2000s.
History
K-Love Classics was launched in June 2018 as an internet radio station featuring classic Contemporary Christian music (CCM) from the 1980s, 1990s, and the early part of the decade of the 2000s, akin to the secular classic hits format. In response to popular demand, Educational Media Foundation (EMF) began airing the format over its nationwide network of full-power FM stations, low-power translators, and HD Radio subchannels. In August 2018, WAIW in Wheaton, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago) became the first terrestrial radio station to broadcast K-Love Classics.
More stations were added over the next several weeks, including in Palm Springs, California as well as subchannels of WLVU in Nashville and KLVB in Sacramento. For a brief period starting in August 2018, K-Love Classics was available in Los Angeles on KKLQ-HD3, but the following month it was replaced with Radio Nueva Vida programming. However, in August 2020, K-Love Classics came back to the Los Angeles airwaves on KYLA-HD3 and KYRA-HD3.
On November 2, 2020, K-Love Classics was discontinued; the network began carrying "K-Love Christmas" as a temporary format, with the EMF stating plans for new programming to premiere in 2021.
On January 1, 2021, the K-Love Classics network was divided into two new networks—"K-Love 90's" and "K-Love 2000's"—devoted to CCM from the 1990s and 2000s respectively. In September 2022, as part of the 40th anniversary of K-Love's launch, the EMF added additional internet radio stations devoted to CCM from the 1970s, 1980s, and 2010s, as well as the "K-Love Birthday Blend", which carries CCM spanning the network's 40-year history.
List of stations
In addition to the online stream, K-Love Classics was relayed by numerous terrestrial radio stations throughout the United States. The following list of stations is the extent of the network as of its total shutdown in early November 2020. Unless otherwise indicated, all stations are on the FM band.
Former Stations Prior to November 2020 Network Closure
References
External links
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2018
2018 establishments in California
Radio stations disestablished in 2020
2020 disestablishments in California
Defunct radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Black%20%28TV%20series%29 | Mr. Black was an Australian television comedy series which premiered on Network Ten on 7 May 2019.
Plot
Mr. Black follows the story of a former journalist whose failing health requires him to move in with his daughter Angela and her boyfriend Fin.
Cast
Stephen Curry as Mr. Peter Black
Nadine Garner as Rowena Black
Sophie Wright as Angela Geraldine Black
Nick Russell as Fin Cruickshank
Paul Denny as Malcolm
Episodes
Ratings
References
External links
2019 Australian television series debuts
2019 Australian television series endings
Network 10 original programming
2010s Australian comedy television series |
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